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Gardens for Peace and the Stolen Statue at Seattle’s Peace Park

On August 10, during our next Family Saturday event, the Seattle Japanese Garden will participate in a North American Japanese Garden Association’s Gardens for Peace community project. Garden visitors will be able to draw a peace pattern—designed by Hiroshima-based artist Toshiko Tanaka—on special calligraphy scrolls in remembrance of those who died in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The Gardens for Peace project symbolizes our commitment to avoiding past mistakes and maintaining world peace, now and in the future.

Japanese CultureYukari YamanoAugust 7, 2024Seattle Peace Park, peace park, sadako, hiroshima, hiroshima bombing, world peace, seattle japanese garden, origami crane, cranes, origami

Spring Cleaning: Replacing the Paper Shoji Screen at the Shoseian Tea House

On April 6, we opened the Shoseian Tea House at the Garden for our first Japanese Tea Ceremony Demonstration of the 2024 season. A week prior to opening, the tea house underwent its annual spring cleaning. (Two major cleanings take place at the tea house each year: one in spring, just before the tea demonstration season starts, and the other in fall, just after the season ends.) Read more…

Chado, Garden Maintenance, Japanese CultureYukari YamanoApril 5, 2024teahouse, shoji, shojiscreen, akarishoji, seattle japanese garden, spring cleaning

Cornus alba ‘Argenteo-marginata’ is a Shrub for All Seasons

When spring’s vibrant flowering has come to an end, visitors to the Seattle Japanese Garden experience the subtle beauty of its many shades of green. Now the shrub dogwood Cornus alba ‘Argenteo-marginata’ draws our attention. Its gray-green leaves edged in white are a luminous presence—as is the winter brilliance of its fiery red stems.

In the Garden, Japanese Garden Design, Plants and Blooms, Summer, SpringCorinne KennedyJuly 26, 2021Garden Design, gardening, seattle japanese garden

Full Kaleidoscope Series Now Available on YouTube!

Thank you everyone for attending and making our Kaleidoscope virtual series a success! Each of the four webinars were attended by many viewers from our community. You can now enjoy them all on our YouTube page!

Japanese Garden Design, In the Garden, Events, Japanese Culture, Visual Art, FallChie IidaNovember 17, 2020seattle japanese garden, sumi, Art, ikebana

Kaleidoscope Series 2: Maple Pruning with Pete Putnicki

Second in the Kaleidoscope series is "Maple Pruning With Pete Putnicki". In this webinar, our senior gardener, Pete Putnicki demonstrates how pruning is done on the signature weeping maple. He talks about Japanese garden aesthetics and gives some tips on maple pruning.

Japanese Garden Design, In the GardenYukari YamanoOctober 8, 2020maple pruning, japanese maple, seattle japanese garden

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