Japanese Garden Plants

Disclaimer: The plants listed here are representative of the plants that are typically used when landscaping a Japanese Style Garden. While we carry many of these plants throughout the year when they are in season, the plants are subject to availability and our inventory changes daily. Please call us to check to see if the plant you are interested in is currently in stock.

Japanese Garden & Plants

 

Please take a look at our San Gabriel Nursery & Florist’s list of Japanese garden plant selections.

Bamboos & Palms

  • Cycas revoluta

  • Phyllostachys Aurea - Golden Bamboo

  • Phyllostachys bambusoides - Giant Timber Bamboo

  • Phyllostachys Nigra - Black Bamboo

  • Sasa Palmata

  • Trachycarpus Fortunei - Windmill Palm

Climbers

  • Clematis patens - Clematis

  • Parthenocissus Tricuspidata - Boston Ivy

  • Wisteria Floribunda - Japanese Wisteria

Low Shrubs, Grasses & Ground Cover

  • Acorus Gramineus - Japanese Sweet Flag, Japanese Rush

  • Ardisia Japonica - Japanese Ardisia

  • Asarum - Wild Ginger

  • Aspidistra Elatior

  • Asplenium Scolopendrium - Hart's Tongue Fern

  • Carex Morrowii - Japanese Sedge

  • Clivia - Kaffir Lily

  • Cotoneaster Dammeri - Cotoneaster

  • Dizygotheca Elegantissima - False Aralia

  • Equisetum - Horsetail Reed

  • Festuca Ovina - Blue Fescue

  • Helixine Soleirolii - Baby's Tears

  • Hemerocallis Fulva - Daylily

  • Hosta Species - Plaintain Lily

  • Iberis - Candytuft

  • Iris Ensata - Japanese Water Iris

  • Iris Kaempferi - Japanese Iris

  • Jasminum - Jasmine

  • Juncus - Knotty Leaf Rush

  • Juniperus Horizontalis - Creeping Juniper

  • Kerria Japonica - Jew's Mantle, Japanese Rose

  • Ligularia

  • Liriope Gigantea - Giant Lilyturf

  • Liriope Muscari - Lily Turf

  • Microlepia - Lace Fern

  • Ophiopogon Jaburans

  • Ophiopogon Japonicus - Mondo Grass

  • Pachysandra Terminalis - Spurge

  • Phragmites (Reed) - Juncus

  • Sarcococa

  • NSpiraea Thunbergii - Spiraea, Bridal Wreath

  • Thymus Serpyllum - Creeping Thyme

  • Zoysia Tenuifolia - Mascarene Grass

Medium - Large Shrubs

  • Aucuba Japonica - Spotted Laurel

  • Berberis Thunbergii - Barberry

  • Buxus Microphylla

  • Callicarpa Japonica - Japanese Beautyberry

  • Camellia Japonica - Common Camellia

  • Camellia Sasanqua

  • Carissa

  • Chaenomeles Speciosa - Japanese Quince

  • Cleyera japonica - Japanese Cleyera (Sakaki)

  • Daphne Odora - Winter Daphne

  • Eugenia

  • Fatsia Japonica Japanese Aralia

  • Gardenia

  • Hydrangea

  • Hypericum x Moserianum - (Form of St. John's Wort)

  • Ilex Crenata - Holly

  • Ligustrum Japonicum - Japanese Privet

  • Ligustrum Japonicum 'Texanum' - Waxleaf Privet

  • Loropetalum Chinensis - Chinese Fringe Bush

  • Magnolia Stellata - Star Magnolia

  • Mahonia Aquilifolium - Oregon Grape

  • Myrtus - Myrtle

  • Nandina Domestica - Heavenly Bamboo

  • Ochna

  • Olearia x Haastii - Daisy Bush

  • Osmanthus Fragrans - Fragrant Olive

  • Paeonia Suffruticosa - Tree Peony

  • Photinia x Fraseri 'Red Robin' - Japanese Photinia

  • Photinia Glabra - Red-Leafed Photinia

  • Pieris Japonica - Japanese Pieris

  • Pinus Densiflora 'Umbraculifera' - Tanyosho Pine ( Seasonal)

  • Pinus Mugo - Mountain Pine

  • Pittosporum Tobira - Mock Orange

  • Podocarpus Macrophylla - Yew Pine

  • Podocarpus Macrophylla 'Maki' - Japanese Yew

  • Podocarpus Macrophylla 'Gracilior' - Fern Pine

  • Punica Granatum - Pomegranate

  • Rhododendron Indicum - Rhododendron

  • Ternstremia Japonica

  • Viburnum

Trees

  • Acer Palmatum -Japanese Maple

  • Betula Pendula - Silver Birch

  • Chamaecyparis Obtusa 'Nana' - Hinoki Cypress

  • Cornus Kousa - Dogwood

  • Cryptomeria Japonica - Japanese Cedar

  • Ginkgo Biloba - Maidenhair Tree

  • Pinus Parviflora - Japanese White Pine

  • Pinus Thumbergii - Japanese Black Pine

  • Prunus Cerasifera - Flowering Plum

  • Prunus First Lady Flowering Cherry

  • Prunus Floribunda - Flowering Crabapple

  • Prunus Glandulosa - Flowering Dwarf Almond

  • Prunus Japonica - Korean Cherry

  • Prunus Mume - Japanese Apricot

  • Prunus Persica - Flowering Peach

  • Prunus Serrulata 'Pink Cloud' - Flowering Cherry

  • Prunus Subhirtelloa 'Pendula' - Weeping Higan Cherry

  • Salix Babylonica - Weeping Willow