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There are five distinct types of Japanese gardens: hill and pond, dry landscape, tea, courtyard and stroll. The Discovery Garden features the stroll design. Odd numbers of plants and stones are used in groupings and spaced unevenly. Dry rock beds symbolize rushing rivers; large rocks represent mountains. Not surprisingly, water features are an integral part of Japanese gardens.
Japanese Garden Plant List
| # | Botanical Name | Cultivar | Common Name | Tree | Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acer palmatum | 'Sango-Kaku' | coral bark maple | T | |
| 2 | Acer palmatum dissectum | 'Red Dragon' | Japanese maple | T | |
| 3 | Acer shirasawanum | 'Full Moon' | Japanese maple | T | |
| 4 | Alchemilla mollis | lady's mantle | |||
| 5 | Astilbe chinensis | 'Pumila' | astilbe | ||
| 6 | Athyrium niponicum | 'Pictum' | Japanese painted fern | ||
| 7 | Camellia | crooked stem camellia | |||
| 8 | Cedrus atlantica | 'Glauca Pendula' | weeping blue atlas cedar | T | |
| 9 | Dicentra spectabilis | 'Batik' | bleeding heart | ||
| 10 | Drypteris erythrosora | 'Brilliance' | autumn fern | ||
| 11 | Elaeagnus x ebbingei | 'Gilt Edge' | gilt edge silverberry | ||
| 12 | Fargesia dracocephala | 'Rufa' | dragon's head, clumping bamboo | ||
| 13 | Hakonechloa macra | 'Aureola' | golden Japanese forest grass | ||
| 14 | Hermodactylus tuberosus (Iris tuberosa) | snake head iris, black iris | |||
| 15 | Iris ensata | lavender Japanese iris | |||
| 16 | Juniperus procumbens | 'Nana' | dwarf Japanese garden juniper | ||
| 17 | Lonicera nitida | 'Lemon Beauty' | Oregon boxleaf, box honeysuckle | ||
| 18 | Mentha requienii | Corsican mint | |||
| 19 | Ophiopogon planiscapus | 'Nigrescens' | black mondo grass | ||
| 20 | Pieris japonica | 'Purity' | Japanese andromeda | ||
| 21 | Pleioblastus pygmaea | pygmy bamboo | |||
| 22 | Polystichum munitum | western swordfern | N | ||
| 23 | Polystichum setiferum | 'Plumosomultilobum' | hardy fern | ||
| 24 | Rhododendron | 'Unique' | unique rhododendron | ||
| 25 | Rhododendron racemosum | 'Rock Rose' | rhododendron | ||
| 26 | Rhododendron viscosum | 'Ribbon candy' | ribbon candy azalea | ||
| 27 | Sagina subulata | Irish moss | |||
| 28 | Sambucus nigra | 'Black Lace' | black lace elderberry | T | |
| 29 | Tsuga canadensis | 'Pendula' | Sargent's weeping hemlock |