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The Japanese have used pergolas in their landscaping designs for centuries. If you need to design a Japanese-style garden in your yard, you will desire to incorporate some type of covered walkway or pavillion. Pergolas are arbors with cross-beams over the top which are frequently used to make formal entrances to gardens or to supply a covered area for relaxing and chatting. Though the roofs of these structures aren’t water tight, you can grow vines over them to provide for a shady retreat. While the ancient Japanese built pergolas of stone, modern tastes have changed to wooden structures which are much more reasonable to build. As well as models made of wood, arbors are also available that are fashioned from iron, vinyl, and fiberglass.
Japanese pergolas are knock-offs of the first pagodas which were built to provide housing for the ashes of Buddha. Their design often includes straight crosspieces with scrolled ends. Thru the centuries, the structures lost their religious connotations, especially when the designs caught on in the western world where Buddhism is rarely practiced. Although these classic bowers went out of favor during periods of the 18th and 19th centuries when fashionable gardens went thru a natural trend, they have come back into style in the 21st century in a big style.
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EXCEPT for a fallen Japanese cedar and some battered zinnias, Hurricane Sandy did little damage to the Linwood Arboretum, where 200 trees and shrubs continue to thrive in near oblivion on a single acre.
If you haven’t heard of the arboretum, that isn’t surprising. This little triangle of unusual plants, cinched in between a bike path and a couple of one-way streets, is so small that even in Linwood, most people don’t notice it.
As Allen Lacy, a former garden columnist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal who helped start the project five years ago, likes to say, “This is the smallest arboretum in the world.”
Mr. Lacy, who lives down the street, hasn’t exactly scoured the world for a smaller one, but he has a point: most arboretums tend to be several hundred acres with thousands of plants.
On a chilly afternoon a few days after the storm, the camellias were still in bloom. A fat bud on a towering hibiscus promised one more enormous pink flower; the dark pods of the black cotton plants were bursting with satiny white seeds.
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Start your garden with visualization Lighting: To use the deck or garden into the evening, add a back door lamp, candelabras suspended from a pergola over the table, Japanese lanterns strung through the trees, or solar lights along a winding path. • Structures: Use bamboo for a privacy |
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Wistaria To Eye, Wisteria To Buy The wet weather may have wiped out Sunday's Wistaria Festival in Sierra Madre but perhaps, despite its cancellation, the event inspired you to challenge your home's eaves and pergola with a wisteria vine of your own. Here are a few cultural practices |
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Sierra Madre Goodwill Garden Celebration Overflowed Saturday A continued restoration was launched in 1998, with the addition of a new Tori-style gate, pergola and the replacement of a broken lantern. Maintenance duties are performed by current 5th grade students, since enrollment was shifted to K-5. |
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Openings & Closings Japanese and Asian menus are offered at the newly opened Wabi-Sabi, 39 Washington St, Morristown (973-539-2999); BYO. La Pergola, 120 Essex St, Millburn (973-376-6838), has opened, serving seasonal northern Italian cuisine; BYO. |
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Lesson in Japanese They'll make you complete an environmental impact study for a pergola. They'll stop you from cutting down nuisance trees. They'll make you apply for a building licence for a shade sail. They'll stop you from taking doggie bags from restaurants, |