Building a Japanese Garden in my Backyard!

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This is the story about how I built a Japanese Garden in my own backyard, with my own bare hands, and with no help from any contractors or experts. The video quality is a little crude at first but it gets better I promise. Bonus video at the end: the "mini tool temple" stop motion timelapse! Thanks for watching!
Plant list:
japanese hakone grass (wasn't doing good in the deep shade)
japanese maple
dwarf weeping blue spruce (doing OK in the shade but not great)
golden juniper shrub (not doing good, looking very thin, probably too much shade, but still alive)
creeping juniper (doing a lot better)
redbud tree
lilly of the valley
hosta
meadow rue (died, too much shade? not enough water?)
coral bells (one died, and the other is doing great)
ferns:
- japanese painted fern (died)
- ostrich fern
- frosty fern
- christmas fern (haven’t found any yet)
for the rock composition:
- boxwood (left untrimmed yet conical, or heavily trimmed into a bonsai)
- dwarf japanese maple? trimmed heavily every year
- golden dwarf hinoki cypress (doing great!)
- dward cypress cultivars (most of these died)
- moss (what I bought never turned green and I have sinse replaced with a lush field of clover)
- scottish moss (all died, was too shady and dry)
ground cover and vines:
- periwinkle
- english ivy
- wintercreeper
New this year:
- japanese pachysandra (in a container)

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  • @kyleboronky1324
    @kyleboronky13243 жыл бұрын

    Hey love this video! Do you have a list of the plants you bought? I’ve got a planter in front of my house that I want to turn into a Japanese theme. I live in PA so zone 6.

  • @ThisOldJalopy

    @ThisOldJalopy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually I do have a list! japanese hakone grass (wasn't doing good in the deep shade) japanese maple dwarf weeping blue spruce (doing OK in the shade but not great) golden juniper shrub (not doing good, looking very thin, probably too much shade, but still alive) creeping juniper (doing a lot better) redbud tree lilly of the valley hosta meadow rue (died, too much shade? not enough water?) coral bells (one died, and the other is doing great) ferns: - japanese painted fern (died) - ostrich fern - frosty fern - christmas fern (haven’t found any yet) for the rock composition: - boxwood (left untrimmed yet conical, or heavily trimmed into a bonsai) - dwarf japanese maple? trimmed heavily every year - golden dwarf hinoki cypress (doing great!) - dward cypress cultivars (most of these died) - moss (what I bought never turned green and I have sinse replaced with a lush field of clover) - scottish moss (all died, was too shady and dry) ground cover and vines: - periwinkle - english ivy - wintercreeper New this year: - japanese pachysandra (in a container)

  • @only1dwill
    @only1dwill7 ай бұрын

    THIS IS ICONIC!!!! YOU ABSOLUTELY ACHIEVED THE PERFECT AT HOME OASIS!!!! The clip towards the end of the boards being nailed individually is interesting! All I can think of is the work, love, and patience that was involved in between each frame! That's what social media doesn't show us! Bravo! Totally inspired!!! Amazing work!!!

  • @mariavillarreal1786
    @mariavillarreal1786 Жыл бұрын

    JUST CLAPPING OVER HERE.... YOU GAVE ME HOPE! HUBBY SAYS THANK YOU... AMAZING JOB....we are excited to start... hubby also says thanks for the inspiration... we got this -- YOU sir inspired other humans on this planet... and that is what life is about!! thank you

  • @grumpyoldman1
    @grumpyoldman1 Жыл бұрын

    Bit of a tip for you, if I may be so bold! Instead of shovelling the gravel out of the pick up, try scooping it out with a bucket and then pouring it into the wheelbarrow. I find it quicker that way. Other than that, sit back and enjoy a well earned cold one in your new garden space, nice job!

  • @timothysullivan2952
    @timothysullivan2952 Жыл бұрын

    I watch these videos and so many people think they can DIY there own design which comes out terrible. You are not one of those people. I really like the job you did. Small space but really nicely done. Congratulations on a beautiful space. Perhaps a small water feature.

  • @chilena005
    @chilena005Ай бұрын

    I love the cinematography!! Great work on the project and archiving it.

  • @cassandrasmith5517
    @cassandrasmith551723 күн бұрын

    What a beautiful transformation! You did an awesome job! Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤

  • @ChristineDuval-cy5ck
    @ChristineDuval-cy5ckАй бұрын

    Very beautiful. I love the doggy and cat too.

  • @jenmooney16
    @jenmooney16 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this wonderful, inspiring video! What a peaceful garden, welcoming for humans, dogs, and cats alike. ❤

  • @tishku8885
    @tishku8885Ай бұрын

    This was one of THE MOST inspiring videos I have seen on KZread in a long time. My back yard is a mess. We finally have the money to fix the fence and do something about it. You should "repost this" with a garden update.❤❤❤❤ Thank you!

  • @petalparker5
    @petalparker53 жыл бұрын

    I must say I'm "turning Japanese" in my own garden of late. Japanese style anyway. Plants closely pruned. A lot more space between the plants. Different ground covers of gravel, stone wood and bark etc. Loving it!

  • @aaqilian5.085
    @aaqilian5.085Күн бұрын

    Nice one 👍🏾

  • @midnitemoon577
    @midnitemoon5772 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Love the amazing results! Lots of work but you must be so happy with the wonderful way it turned out. So relaxing. So beautiful. Love how your dog was there throughout the journey. 🐾

  • @earthtoaura528hz
    @earthtoaura528hz Жыл бұрын

    Oh, it's absolutely lovely!! I've always wanted a Japanese inspired garden/backyard and this makes me feel like I can do it too. Well done!

  • @moeejoeee
    @moeejoeee2 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love your mini tool temple and reason for it. The great conjunction was such a powerful moment! God bless!

  • @jayb.8460
    @jayb.8460 Жыл бұрын

    It's always a good feeling when you got privacy and your own little sanctuary. 😌

  • @lindseyc3811
    @lindseyc38112 жыл бұрын

    Extraordinary thank you for sharing, learned some tricks and ideas. Awesome to see the whole family partaking, esp the fur babies! Great space for contemplation and refreshing. 🙏

  • @starlishiascott6203
    @starlishiascott6203 Жыл бұрын

    Your wife is a lucky woman. Great work!

  • @DD-ic1bd
    @DD-ic1bd3 жыл бұрын

    You did a PHENOMENAL job!! Looks Beautiful!!😀👏🙌🤗😍💃💃💃💃

  • @OCLVIG
    @OCLVIG2 жыл бұрын

    Love the video and the way your garden turned out! Great job! Your dog is awesome and well-behaved by-the-way.

  • @mairwaugus5203
    @mairwaugus5203 Жыл бұрын

    Feel the tranquility! ⛩️

  • @BeautifulEarthJa
    @BeautifulEarthJa2 жыл бұрын

    love the music change lol

  • @ebeegeebeefofeebee3181
    @ebeegeebeefofeebee31813 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations ! A great japanese garden and video to boot.

  • @canagrow
    @canagrow2 жыл бұрын

    Nice work! Enjoying the videos and creativity

  • @jaydee5447
    @jaydee54474 ай бұрын

    Dude, fantastic job and love the dog

  • @naturenirvana1
    @naturenirvana12 жыл бұрын

    Great job! It looks beautiful and peaceful.

  • @nmbrs555
    @nmbrs5552 жыл бұрын

    This is very well done! It looks fun, achievable, stress relieving, and a real eye pleaser. Thank you for sharing!

  • @ThisOldJalopy

    @ThisOldJalopy

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much!

  • @lindam9085

    @lindam9085

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ThisOldJalopy so I’d like to know where do you get the large rocks and smaller too. Not the gravel though. Nice job

  • @Tedward88
    @Tedward883 жыл бұрын

    Great job! Kinda makes me want to move to a house just so I could build something like this haha

  • @JT_Williams
    @JT_WilliamsАй бұрын

    Dude your truck is amazing, love to see it getting used like that.

  • @AlexandraMurray99
    @AlexandraMurray992 жыл бұрын

    Now I’m jealous of your truck and your yard!

  • @idaniamorales6058
    @idaniamorales60582 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 😻

  • @JustJane1972
    @JustJane1972 Жыл бұрын

    Great take on some Japanese elements in your small space. Loved the gate and use of trellis for fencing.

  • @lnunez7514
    @lnunez75142 жыл бұрын

    That’s super beautiful!!!!! I love it

  • @sarahmckay5856
    @sarahmckay58567 ай бұрын

    WOW that's EPIC, Love love it, absolutely gorgeous. Is jealous. 1st time seeing this, now i'm hooked on your videos. from South Australia.

  • @shellyjoseph3109
    @shellyjoseph31093 жыл бұрын

    feeling inspired thank you

  • @ThisOldJalopy

    @ThisOldJalopy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching! Glad I could inspire you!

  • @rowegardenservices
    @rowegardenservices Жыл бұрын

    Very cool... particularly love the fence and gate. good job!!

  • @ladyrobinson8417
    @ladyrobinson84172 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @cindythoms7246
    @cindythoms72463 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow, awesome job!!! And video

  • @Jeszcze_Polska_Nie_Zginela
    @Jeszcze_Polska_Nie_Zginela2 ай бұрын

    I love your passion ❤️ 💕 🕊✌️☮️

  • @michellemealey2569
    @michellemealey25692 жыл бұрын

    Just beautiful thanks for sharing 💕

  • @Jojosawesomeadventure
    @Jojosawesomeadventure4 ай бұрын

    Great job. Very done on the Japanese Garden!

  • @sandeehess472
    @sandeehess4729 күн бұрын

    Great job! Inspired by your ideas.

  • @gameonstandby296
    @gameonstandby2963 жыл бұрын

    what da dawg doin

  • @mikezaragoza4473
    @mikezaragoza4473 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice great work . Love doing landscapes relaxes me and I absolutely love n enjoy doing it.

  • @yensiskos
    @yensiskos Жыл бұрын

    Love it!! Great job!!

  • @-M-511
    @-M-511 Жыл бұрын

    that garden and that pickups patina is a beauty

  • @kathleenoglesby2114
    @kathleenoglesby21149 ай бұрын

    AWESOME!

  • @cozycodingmeg
    @cozycodingmeg Жыл бұрын

    Hey! We live in Derby, KS! This is so cool! I'd love to create something like this in my yard! Thanks for sharing!

  • @nitcat1
    @nitcat12 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful transformation

  • @geniusanthony
    @geniusanthony10 ай бұрын

    Dude, you do cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.

  • @TommygunSALO10
    @TommygunSALO10 Жыл бұрын

    Pretty Nice Just Like The Star Wars Ending 👌💯

  • @gardencali-arkansasstyle6995
    @gardencali-arkansasstyle69952 жыл бұрын

    Wow. A lot of work well done🌺

  • @nated4949
    @nated4949 Жыл бұрын

    Wow great video and very inspiring

  • @docsavagefan2795
    @docsavagefan27952 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 🤩

  • @enzeda
    @enzeda3 жыл бұрын

    Well done that man, congrats it looks great.

  • @alex17272
    @alex1727211 ай бұрын

    This is one of my favorite videos, I hope to get to do this someday!

  • @GeorgeLoch
    @GeorgeLoch2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful transformation. Now you just need a water feature to make it fully Japanese style ;)

  • @XLittleXRed
    @XLittleXRedАй бұрын

    Turned out so beautiful and relaxing! Did you follow a plan for the garden gate? I love it and keen to try something similar!

  • @brieftodo
    @brieftodo11 ай бұрын

    Cool garden we want to do something similar. If you want long term exterior wood protection try the Japanese technique Yaki Sugi then good beyond that coating the carbonized surface with a mixture of bees wax and boiled linseed oil.

  • @YasLoLo7
    @YasLoLo72 жыл бұрын

    So nice.

  • @Sketchy_Ry
    @Sketchy_Ry2 жыл бұрын

    Man looks great. Good job on the video too

  • @kh77677
    @kh776772 жыл бұрын

    this looks fab

  • @Valentine828
    @Valentine8282 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful job!

  • @eutimiochavez415
    @eutimiochavez4152 жыл бұрын

    Nice truck !

  • @nickatnight9103
    @nickatnight91033 жыл бұрын

    Looks awesome! I like your fence. I need to get creative, so my pups don't destroy my zen garden that's almost finished!

  • @GraftingTactick
    @GraftingTactick3 жыл бұрын

    Great design Japanese garden, the finishing touches, looks amazingly beautiful, new subbed here my friend👍

  • @ALightInTheForest
    @ALightInTheForest3 жыл бұрын

    Great job!

  • @musanyathi2298
    @musanyathi22984 ай бұрын

    There's a set of principles and elements to achieve the Japanese aesthetic. This is a nice garden but not uniquely Japanese.

  • @cherylrichards8951

    @cherylrichards8951

    Ай бұрын

    Party pooper.

  • @lynnmanning2795
    @lynnmanning27954 ай бұрын

    So impressed with your hard scapes . Great job. Mind if I borrow a few of your ideas? From Massachusetts

  • @salberg1
    @salberg12 жыл бұрын

    Respect. Looks amazing. That jalopy of yours really takes a beating.

  • @Moondoggy1941
    @Moondoggy1941 Жыл бұрын

    Have you considered planting Sago palms? Have you considered buying the cedar fence to give it the blackened look.SHOU SUGI BAN YAKISUGI

  • @wolfmoonset
    @wolfmoonset2 жыл бұрын

    at 1:20 and Im sobbing NOT THE MOSS

  • @carrlinewhitfield5282
    @carrlinewhitfield52823 жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @tanyabrown9839
    @tanyabrown9839 Жыл бұрын

    beautiful small Japanese garden, I love the idea of the conifers in the pots. I've got a small garden area Im hoping to turn into Japanese garden but its daunting how Im going to get any big rocks by myself and watching a guy struggle with a rock makes the rock thing even more daunting.

  • @kmsch986

    @kmsch986

    7 ай бұрын

    Agreed. I’m going to try hypertufa as lighter option to give stone looking elements

  • @misteraye
    @misteraye2 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome man, hoping to do’s one thing similar myself. Congrats on a job well done sir :)

  • @TheAajsanchez
    @TheAajsanchez2 жыл бұрын

    This is dope

  • @radow869
    @radow86910 ай бұрын

    The dog seems happy.

  • @TheRoyalBavarian
    @TheRoyalBavarian2 жыл бұрын

    Looks like you Mahomezed it. Sorry from California about the Super Bowl

  • @Yves.saintyvette
    @Yves.saintyvette3 жыл бұрын

    Cute Pup

  • @blank3097
    @blank30972 жыл бұрын

    That shite is sic bro. Signed not a damn lawn jockey✊

  • @denieledwards6893
    @denieledwards68932 жыл бұрын

    GREAT JOB .....CHEERS

  • @mini_worx
    @mini_worx Жыл бұрын

    Nice Squareback.

  • @femshep4018
    @femshep40183 жыл бұрын

    The final fantasy 10 remix was a nice touch!

  • @Charlotte_2648
    @Charlotte_2648 Жыл бұрын

    Goals 🤩

  • @nikokie
    @nikokie3 жыл бұрын

    wow man weldone..... wish I could be of help. love this

  • @fluffycloud5543
    @fluffycloud55433 жыл бұрын

    You should add an eye right in the middle of the pyramid

  • @miriambelanger7292
    @miriambelanger72923 жыл бұрын

    Japanese? Japanese American? Or perhaps American Japanese? Very beautiful and inviting, great job 👏

  • @charityrocks

    @charityrocks

    Жыл бұрын

    🤦🏼‍♀️ There is always someone like you in the comments. It’s obvious that it is Japanese inspired. To which the Japanese would more than likely endorse as well taking into consideration they have given so many cherry trees etc. away as gifts to other countries. There are Japanese gardens in almost every country of the world and many universities. Your comment is picky and condescending with a backhanded compliment at the end. Japanese gardens are meant to symbolize peace & harmony for all. I assume you lean to the American garden side more than the Japanese garden side.

  • @avetsuper6272
    @avetsuper62722 жыл бұрын

    grate job..looks like at japanese spa backyard

  • @ctcv-to8kq
    @ctcv-to8kq16 күн бұрын

    2:45- Nice 411 squareback in the background.

  • @spartacusferdo5546
    @spartacusferdo55462 жыл бұрын

    Lovely! very romantic...no doubt...you may enjoy this atmosphere lot!!!!

  • @paytonal
    @paytonal Жыл бұрын

    Hi what tool did u use to cut the roots?

  • @B-VinOfficial
    @B-VinOfficial2 жыл бұрын

    nice job, drastic improvement. but i think you should hit that garden with a round 2 of improvements and it should include a more permanent solution for the pathway, and also groundcover whetehr it be planted or hardscape for those areas that are exposed soil

  • @norinickrrostron9001
    @norinickrrostron90012 жыл бұрын

    Not Japanese dude...but a great garden none the less...good job...

  • @nidiamolina24
    @nidiamolina243 жыл бұрын

    Where you telling the stone to become lighter ?😂😂😂 love your garden

  • @TheRoyalBavarian
    @TheRoyalBavarian2 жыл бұрын

    I got to say I thought the pyramid was going to be the puppy's home.

  • @orutrayandex
    @orutrayandex Жыл бұрын

  • @BaronUnderbite
    @BaronUnderbite2 жыл бұрын

    I need an ID on that DnB tune lol

  • @marcklonel6885
    @marcklonel68853 жыл бұрын

    You are going to need to prune or remove those large deciduous trees or all that shade will eventually kill those conifers.

  • @ThisOldJalopy

    @ThisOldJalopy

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah its hard to find conifers that will do OK in shade. I tried to find ones that don't require full sun (like pines) and then will see how they do. The ones that don't survive will get replaced. Well, two years later, most are doing OK and some needed to be replaced. The dwarf blue spruce is doing great! The golden/chartreuse juniper bush is looking pretty thin but is still alive, might move it a sunny spot in the front yard. The other, darker juniper (creeping juniper?) is doing great. The cedar died, but they always die. I put a japanese maple in its place. That's the key to a green thumb, replace the dead plants with new ones! But removing the big trees (Hackberry) is out of the question. Even if I wanted to, which I don't, they're on the neighbor's side of the fence.

  • @kathyboykin5335
    @kathyboykin53353 жыл бұрын

    No way I'm paying for a rock

  • @avetsuper6272
    @avetsuper62722 жыл бұрын

    where are you located people, where is this ?

  • @mairwaugus5203

    @mairwaugus5203

    Жыл бұрын

    Kansas Toto, Kansas.

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