In Jardines de Montesolana we have designed a majestic Japanese garden from the Heian era, with waterfall swimming pools and relaxing promenades, and only accesible for the enjoyment of its owners.

"The japanese garden is spiritual, extremely refined on its aesthetic, on its forms and substance; the different trends or styles have taken into account the respect to the preceding; even more, new styles and tendencies have been incorporated to the japanese gardening along its long history.

All Japanese gardens maintain the following rules:

- The asymmetry with all elements in the garden. The oriental garden is always asymmetric. This concept is combined with a general equilibrium in the composition of the design, with all the participating elements.

- The simplicity on the forms, with elegance and a great spiritual depth.

- The beauty of the empty spaces. In the design, the empty spaces are composed as necessary and complementary with water, stones, ground, grassland... the sight of this rule is essential for the whole garden harmony.

- The majestic austerity, the beauty of the simple, of the austere.

- The refined depth. Of the subtle. The needles of the pine trees on the ground, the moss taken care with love; Little things that sometimes are much more important than bigger ones.

- The naturalness represents the Nature itself, wise, balanced, rational; all the things contemplated in the garden must look like placed there by Nature; we'll never feel anything superfluous, anything missing.

- The suspended serenity, which enables meditation across the restful contemplation. The contemplation of the garden must give us energy, must transmit us serenity. The garden must invite us to go in, intimately, hospitably, privately; far from other spectators. The garden is our private world, impassable, inaccessible for strangers.

A well built garden represents a work of art, and, because of its fragile nature, alive, in constant evolution, with seasonal changes, continuously demanding care and attention, it declives and disappear when the soul of its creator come to an end.
The Japanese garden, in all its styles, is strongly joined to the aesthetic sensibility of its author. It emanates such refinement that any aesthetic change have repercussions on the whole garden.

MANUEL GARCÍA FERREIRA.
Landscape and gardener