Hallson Gardens

The film crew arrive in a few days for the filming of 'Yuki' and today a new tiled roof was added to the Teahouse especially for the film

This is a view from the bridge across the lower pond
The rhododendron in flower brightens the scene

......... my wisteria at the Teahouse has finally agreed to flower
Patience has to be a virtue .....

This time of year Chris, all I can think about is trying to get the garden into order. Everything needs done at once, which is impossible, so sometimes even important things simply aren't done Pond weed to clear before the frogs start spawning and the ducks arrive Compost heap to clear before the gr...

OK The garden has just been commissioned as the setting for two scenes of a new short film called 'Yuki' The film is about a young Japanese girl who comes over from Japan with her parents to live in Northern Ireland Two of the early scenes are in Japan and our garden has been selected for the filmin...

Pretty cool
This is the link
http://www.businessballs.com/pureland_j ... tation.htm

Ah George
Life will never be the same again
Here's hoping that the final wrench away from what has been your 'home' for so many years will prove not to be too hurtful

Your Torii was nice Herb, but I think that I too prefer the roofed version
It looks good

Good work Brian .. keeping George happy is a worth while achievement these days :) Still, when I try imagining my garden as a "shrine", I can't help feeing that it takes the idea of "shrine" a bit far I have to agree wholeheartedly with that remark Herb I don't think any of us could imagine their ga...

Translation is a wonderful thing Herb 'shrine' might mean something special to one person and something else to someone else, or it may just have become something rather more in the translation itself I, personally, have no problem whatsoever with the idea of a Japanese Garden being somewhat of a 's...

The Torii Gate is an indication that the visitor is entering a place that is a 'shrine' or somewhere that is to be 'revered' as a sacred place (or that there is such a place at least nearby) The Japanese Garden itself is (to the Japanese) a 'shrine to nature'. Nature itself is something to be revere...

Mine is as simple as they come
Did you know that the Torii was originally a chicken roost?

Can you smell it? Isn't it just heavenly?

Hi Bert
It has that sense of peacefulness/tranquility that sits at the heart of a true Japanese Garden.
I like it

Ye mean .... I've got visitors

A view towards the bridge in late May ....

Sounds like a good bargain George

This year's little ducklings are pretty cute

Vincent Price???
And I thought that was my GOOD side

ahhh shucks !!!