Abstract

🌳 Creating Your Mixed Woodland Garden
The naturalistic "Mixed Woodland Style Garden" (Zōki no Niwa) is currently attracting significant attention for its ability to keep outdoor spaces cool in the summer and warm in the winter. This style is becoming essential for creating a comfortable modern living environment.

This guide introduces how to create your own mixed woodland garden, complete with various practical examples.

Key Features:
Feasibility: Learn that creating a Zōki garden is possible even in small or poorly sunlit spaces. The book showcases over a dozen practical examples, complete with blueprints, tailored to various sizes and specific environments.

Real-World Experience: Includes feedback from homeowners who currently live with and maintain Zōki gardens—valuable insight for any reader considering a garden project.

Low Maintenance: The book clearly explains maintenance methods, suitable even for beginners, ensuring your Zōki garden only requires attention once a year.

Plant Guide: Features a detailed guide to approximately 30 types of mixed trees suitable for private gardens, along with techniques for managing and controlling their growth.

Author’s Information

President of Takada Landscaping Design Office, a landscaping and design firm. He is also the Representative Director of the non-profit organization Earth Protector.

Through his work in landscape design that harnesses the local natural environment, Hiroomi Takada offers proposals for creating nature-rich living environments and urban development, both in Japan and abroad. Particularly after the Great East Japan Earthquake, he has been involved not only in garden design but also in environmental improvement in satoyama (village forests) and remote mountain areas, as well as guiding and educating on environmental regeneration in disaster-stricken areas using traditional techniques. One of his notable publications is "Soil Environment: The Forgotten Perspective of Symbiosis, Revival of Ancient Techniques" (published by Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha).