Japanese Gardening Techniques - How to Shear Karikomi and Tamamono Shrubs

How to shear karikomi and tamamono shrubs - Japanese gardening techniques.
Learn from our Garden Curator/Niwashi - Ben Schrepf about the basics of shaping and pruning shrubs into karikomi and tamamono at the Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix, Arizona - RoHoEn.

[@ericb4821]

Very useful. Thanks

[@JJ-pv9rf]

Good stuff. More please.

[@thejapanesefriendshipgarde2279]

More to come!

[@johnenrightjr31]

So interesting! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@thejapanesefriendshipgarde2279]

Thank you!

[@TEPO--]

Wonderful, thank you.

[@PanAhimsa]

The question is when you do this…after blooming?

[@danjackson7758]

i'm interested in growing some round-ish shaped blobs. i want the foliage to be as fine and dense as possible to create a very smooth appearance. which variety of shrub would be best? i have been told to look out for evergreen small leaved azalea japonica, but the ones in my local garden centres are not particularly small leaved. have i been given the right information? other than azaleas and box, what would also be a good shrub for getting a very dense smooth look?

[@RaiUriarte]

One question , what is the name of the plant that Niwashi Ben is applying the technique on?

[@thejapanesefriendshipgarde2279]

Hello, they are Dwarf Myrtle!

[@robbartlla2371]

@@thejapanesefriendshipgarde2279 in the video he says they're Dwarf Yaupon Holly

[@andichan72]

Also yaupon holly, i.e. the first one

[@stevehiggins1263]

Using them shears lies they are clippers lol... Slow down man your not getting it done any quicker going like the clappers.

[@thejapanesefriendshipgarde2279]

Hi Steve, our film was done in this manner for the purposes of time and would normally not have been so fast! Thanks for watching!

[@prettynicefield1104]

dude it not race take care of your shears !!