Gardens Illustrated Magazine

The Outsider

Sugi is the national tree of Japan, commonly planted around shrines and temples but revered and cultivated in gardens throughout the temperate world. There is no better place to experience the majesty and ancestry of these singular conifers than the hauntingly beautiful, primeval rainforests of Yakushima, home to 1,900 plant species and hundreds of ancient or Japanese cedar trees of at least 1,000 years old. Yakushima lies 38 miles south of sub tropical Kyushu, the most southerly of Japan’s four main islands. The sugi () tree is an

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