Shape Of Japanese Gardens: Garden writers are a strange lot and once they get locked into something, even decades will not force them to give up a notion. Take the hosta as a case in point.
Hostas come from Japan and China. There they have been cultivated for centuries. The Japanese grow them in gardens, in pots, in deep shade and full sun, in rock gardens and in temple gardens, and they even use them cut up in stir-fry. (I assume the Chinese do something shape of japanese gardens the same but I can find no documentation for this statement.)
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