Create Your Aromatic Japanese Garden

Create Your Aromatic Japanese Garden: A Sensory Journey To The Land Of The Rising Sun is a practical and reflective guide to designing a garden inspired by Japanese traditions, where fragrance, balance and cultural meaning come together.

Moving between gardening practice and cultural immersion, the book invites readers to discover a more serene way of cultivating space. Through the principles of wabi-sabi and ma, it explores how a garden can become more than a decorative place: a living environment shaped by harmony, simplicity and attention to the natural world.

Alongside this cultural perspective, the guide offers practical advice on growing emblematic Japanese plants such as shiso, sanshō and yomogi, integrating traditional elements like stone lanterns, ponds, stepping paths and ema plaques, and using eco-friendly techniques inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming. It also shows how to adapt these ideas to different settings, from balconies to larger gardens.