Pond with turtle island
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Turtle island with pines now at night
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Dry stream to the pond
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Maples in fall colour
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This garden house I will build up as a japanese teahouse
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Some of my koi in the pond
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I think this will work -

Pond with turtle island

Turtle island with pines now at night

Dry stream to the pond

Maples in fall colour

This garden house MikawaI will build up as a japanese teahouse

Some of Mikawa's koi in the pond

Thanks Herb for fixing the photos for all of us to enjoy.

Cheers Jando

Also many thanks to Jando, tuanh and smithjm for your nice comments.

@ Jando: I've been working on the garden for 7 years now. The plants are established in this time, but I work on them again and again for a good style.
The ground cover around the maple is haircap moss (Sugigoke / Polytrichum commune) and the pines on the turtle island must develop still a little more in the next time. I have many pines like the japanese white pine (Goyomatsu / Pinus pentaphylla), japanese black pine (Kuromatsu / Pinus thunbergii), japanese red pine (Akamatsu / Pinus densiflora) and some other species. But I love also the maples. They are so nice in fall colour.
I don't know if the koi coming to the surface is smiling. This koi variety is an Asagi. A very wild one, but like the other koi he is trained to eat from hand. They might even tolerate having their backs rubbed.

I try to create an authentic japanese garden without kitsch. I have seen many japan gardens with unnatural elements and I decided to hold myself to the real original japanese gardens.

I have just finished my work to the Kosikake-Machiai and if you like it, I will show some photos in the future.

Thanks again for comments, Mikawa.

anata no niwa wa totemo utsukushii desu

anata wa nihon jin desuka. joozu desu yo

Im just expressing how skillful I think you are!! And the water in your pond is really clear!!! Nice work

matane
Henrik

It's very nice Henrik. For clear water I use a pond filter.
The filter is hidden under the new Kosikake-Machiai.
Do you have also nishikigoi?

matane
Mikawa