Features
Water, or its simulated form in sand, is the central feature of the Nikka Yuko, as in all Japanese landscape gardens. Trees are primarily conifers and may be trained to graceful lines. Stones and rocks are used liberally, either in representation of their natural form, or symbolically to suggest other aspects of a setting such as mountains, waterfalls or islands set in seas or oceans.
- Dry rock garden
- Mountain and waterfall
- Streams and bridges
- Ponds and islands
- Flat prairie garden
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