Japanese Garden
There are five distinct types of Japanese gardens: hill and pond, dry landscape, tea, courtyard and stroll. The Discovery Garden features the stroll design. Odd numbers of plants and stones are used in groupings and spaced unevenly. Dry rock beds symbolize rushing rivers; large rocks represent mountains. Not surprisingly, water features are an integral part of Japanese gardens.
Japanese Garden Plant List
| # | Botanical Name | Cultivar | Common Name | Tree | Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ophiopogon planiscapus | 'Nigrescens' | black mondo grass | ||
| 2 | Sagina subulata | Irish moss | |||
| 3 | Pleioblastus pygmaea | pygmy bamboo | |||
| 4 | Acer palmatum dissectum | 'Red Dragon' | Japanese maple | ||
| 5 | Athyrium niponicum | 'Pictum' | Japanese painted fern | ||
| 6 | Fargesia dracocephala | 'Rufa' | red dragon’s head, clumping bamboo | ||
| 7 | Polystichum setiferum | 'Plumosomultilobum' | hardy fern | ||
| 8 | Rhododendron viscosum | 'Ribbon candy' | ribbon candy azalea | ||
| 9 | Sambucus nigra | 'Black Lace' | black lace elderberry | * | |
| 10 | Pieris japonica | 'Purity' | Japanese andromeda | ||
| 11 | Imperata cylindrica | 'Red Baron' | Japanese blood grass | ||
| 12 | Lonicera nitida | 'Lemon Beauty' | Oregon boxleaf, box honeysuckle | ||
| 13 | Cedrus atlantica | 'Glauca Pendula' | weeping blue atlas cedar | * | |
| 14 | Tsuga canadensis | 'Pendula' | Sargent's weeping hemlock | ||
| 15 | Astilbe chinensis | 'Pumila' | astilbe | ||
| 16 | vacant | ||||
| 17 | Dicentra spectabilis | 'Batik' | bleeding heart | ||
| 18 | Hermodactylus tuberosus (Iris tuberosa) | snake head iris, black iris | |||
| 19 | vacant | ||||
| 20 | Elaeagnus x ebbingei | 'Gilt Edge' | gilt edge silverberry | ||
| 21 | Camellia | crooked stem camellia | |||
| 22 | Clematis armandii | 'Snowdrift' | evergreen clematis | ||
| 23 | Rhododendron racemosum | 'Rock Rose' | rhododendron | ||
| 24 | Rhododendron | 'Unique' | unique rhododendron | ||
| 25 | Hakonechloa macra | 'Aureola' | golden Japanese forest grass | ||
| 26 | Iris ensata | lavender Japanese iris | |||
| 27 | Chamaecyparis obtusa | 'Pigmaea Aurescens' | compact bronze hinoki cypress | ||
| 28 | Juniperus procumbens | 'Nana' | dwarf Japanese garden juniper | ||
| 29 | Drypteris erythrosora | 'Brilliance' | autumn fern | ||
| 30 | Polystichum munitum | western swordfern | * | ||
| 31 | Acer palmatum | 'Sango-Kaku' | coral bark maple | * | |
| 32 | Cyclamen hederifollium | hardy cyclamen | |||
| 33 | Mentha requienii | Corsican mint | |||
| 34 | Rhododendron | red azalea | |||
| 35 | Acer shirasawanum | 'Full Moon' | Japanese maple |