Asian Garden Landscaping around my pool (Pic heavy)

I thought I'd share this as much to share the experiment as to show it off. Most of these, I'm about a year in on having planted. The smaller maples were added later.

The yard is a mess, as half of my sod will deliver Good Friday. But my maples have leafed out, so i thought it was a good time to share some pics. All of these are (on paper) supposed to survive zone 9. The maples, with the exception of my "Baton Rouge" get morning sun and afternoon shade. I'm hopeful that everything will survive the long-haul, but like all gardening some of it is a crap shoot. But most of the big stuff seems to have thrived through last summer.

I thought you guys might enjoy seeing something totally different. There's also assorted junipers sprinkled in there that I didn't label. The maples and assorted dwarf pines were all mail ordered. The big thunderheads, black dragon and tall hollywood juniper were all from a nursery in Lafayette.

The big pines are the largest thing in there, and they are not a very big pine. I plan on keeping them relatively small. The rest of the pines are all considered dwarfs and only get a few feet big after 10 years. One cool thing is my pool area looked pretty much like this throughout the winter. The maples are the only thing out there that looses their leaves.


Hupps Dwarf Japanese Maple


Autumn Moon Japanese Maple


Mikawa Yatsubusa Japanese Maple


2 of the maples, cryptomeria japonica globosa nanas


From left to right
Paul's Gold Cypress, a rock, Black Dragon Cryptomeria (tall thing), Fukuzumi Jap. White Pine (behind rocks), Thunderhead Jap. Black Pine (large pine), Hedgehog Cedar of Lebanon (small thing left of Foo Dog), Catherine Elizabeth Jap. White Pine, Kotobuki Japanese Black Pine


Ron's Broom Jap. White Pine


Fukuzumi Jap. White Pine


Thunderhead J. Black Pine


"Baton Rouge" Japanese Maple


Thunderhead Japanese Black Pine #2