Plants for a Japanese Garden
Japanese gardens often represent a scaled-down and stylized version of the natural landscape, but they can also be serene spaces that are used for meditation. Many of our most popular garden plants, including ornamental cherries, maples, rhododendrons and bamboos originate from Japan, so will fit perfectly into that setting.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Soil type
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (69)
- Attractive seedheads (46)
- Autumn foliage colour (53)
- Berries or fruit (29)
- Coloured leaves (27)
- Colourful bark or stems (19)
- Deciduous (18)
- Easy to grow (16)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (58)
- Flowering (156)
- Long flowering (28)
- Low maintenance (104)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (37)
- Non invasive (8)
- Non poisonous (130)
- Plants that are native (4)
- Plants that help filter noise (9)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (68)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (29)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (3)
- Resistant to diseases (23)
- Stylish in the border (1)
- Suitable for containers (62)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (12)
- Winter colour (66)
Chelsea plant of year
Plant Seasons
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (4)
Acer griseum
£94.99
Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'
£29.99
£25.49
Camellia japonica 'Lady Vansittart'
£29.99
£25.49
Camellia × williamsii 'Anticipation'
£29.99
£25.49
Camellia × williamsii 'Donation'
£29.99
£25.49
Sasa palmata
£19.99
Wisteria sinensis
£29.99
£14.99
Ginkgo biloba
£99.99
Liriope muscari
£11.99
Pieris japonica 'Valley Valentine'
£16.99
£14.44
Prunus lusitanica
£14.99
Malus 'Evereste'
£79.99
Malus floribunda
£69.99
Prunus serrula
£74.99
Prunus 'Tai-haku'
£74.99
Prunus triloba
£24.99
Prunus 'Ukon'
£74.99
Acer palmatum
£79.99
Taxus baccata
£5.99
Malus 'Laura'
£69.99
Camellia japonica 'Silver Anniversary'
£29.99
£25.49
Rhododendron 'Graziella'
£29.99
£14.99
Pieris japonica 'Passion' (PBR)
£16.99
£14.44
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