Just like the basic colors on the painting palette, Japanese garden designers will see the plant, the empty space, the rock, the water, the gravel, the lantern, the „bubbling”, the waterfall.

The picture, the garden must be composed in such a way that the empty space is preserved. You don’t have to paint every color, even if they’re on the palette. Rather, the relationship between emptiness and saturation, the sacred, untouched feeling of nature, must be created. Japanese garden designers do not think as botanists, but rather in forms and proportions. The plant is just one color from the palette, not the variety that matters.

"Painting" the Japanese Garden in Szentendre

Zoltán Dani, the creator of the Japanese garden in Szentendre, has preserved, shaped and incorporated most of the inherited vegetation into the whole picture of the garden, and has supplemented his three-dimensional painting with Japanese species over the years. He raised the inherited plants to a Japanese style, which is otherwise fully accepted in Japanese garden-building culture.

Plants of the Japanese garden in Szentendre

Japanese garden building is not complete by using all its symbols and plants at once. We can meet a Japanese garden that consists exclusively of shaped azaleas, even the rocks are replaced by them. In the Japanese garden in Szentendre we can find bamboo, cherry, black pine, Japanese maple, goldenrod, which are native Japanese species.

The development of the Japanese garden in Szentendre

From what he used to build, today his creator is transforming many things into much simpler, purer forms and images. He consciously focuses on this, thereby teaching himself continuously. According to Dani Zoltán, the road is still long, but the road is the point, not the goal, nor the arrival. The Japanese Garden is a path for life. It is important to work with all your heart, the effort, the cognitions in which we meet ourselves and can experience a zen feeling of timelessness.