Category Archives: Japan
Japan’s Valley of Azalea
On Better Homes and Gardens TV Show this Friday night, Graham Ross dazzles us with an unusual Japanese garden in a valley made up of a staggering 20,000 clipped azaleas. Join him, in a garden only forty minutes from Tokyo…
Flower fields of Japan
Once the cherry blossoms fall, Japan bursts into colour with azaleas, peonies and wisteria creating a crescendo of colour unknown to most international travellers – and not to be missed! This floral exuberance coincides with Japan’s Golden Week – a…
Nikko Japan
This week we are thrilled that our recent travels through Nikko, Japan will be broadcast on Better Homes and Gardens TV Show starting this Friday 13th July. There is a saying in Japan, from old-timers mostly, “Never say kekko (I’ve…
Garden Festival Planner: Matsue Japan
Flying into Matsue, on the shores of Lake Shinjii, the ground glows green with rice and buckwheat. The area is famous for its soba noodles, ancient samurai houses, moated castle – and a succession of cherry blossom, peonies, azaleas and…
What a great year
What a great year we had in 2017, traveling the gardens of the world. Here are some of our most memorable tours. Lily paddling Canada in summer is stupendous, and when we found ourselves in one of the most exciting…
Chasing cherries in Japan
Chasing cherries in Japan with a Ross Garden Tours group was even better than Robin Powell ever thought it would be. And we’re doing it all again next year! If you’d like to join Robin in Japan, call Ros or…
Under the cherry blossom
The Japanese have a different way of seeing. When French artists like Monet, Degas and Cezanne first saw Japanese woodblock prints they too were jolted into a new way of seeing. Used to traditional landscape and single point perspectives the…
In the Loop: Second at the World Cup
Graham Ross introduced promising young landscape designer, Ross Uebergang to the Garden Clinic audience earlier this year as he was heading off to Japan for the Gardening World Cup. We are delighted to report that Ross and his team have taken…