Always wanted to make a dry landscape? Here are some easy Zen garden ideas, including what you need and how to complete it. A Zen garden, otherwise known as a Japanese rock garden, is meant to be a ...

It may seem curious that viewing a sparse landscape of rock and gravel can be an antidote to the day's chaos. But a Zen garden, a minimalist composition of carefully placed stones, is calming — if you ...

Take a flight of discovery high above serene and meticulously designed Asian gardens, where nature and design harmonize in ...

Finding calm, especially in an already crowded and chaotic world can be a great escape from reality. One of the ways to achieve this could be creating a Zen garden in your own home, regardless of size ...

Shunmyo Masuno is regarded as Japan's leading garden designer and its most highly acclaimed landscape architect. A professor at Tama Art University, he is also a Zen Buddhist monk and still presides ...

Introduction : transformations of vision -- Transient symbols -- On the circulation of metaphor -- Zen mountains, Zen water -- Cracks -- Pottery landscapes -- The tea bowl and the toilet bowl -- ...

CORVALLIS — When Paul Jackson’s son graduated from high school, he received an unconventional but welcome gift – six yards of pea gravel. “He wanted a Zen rock garden,” Jackson said. “He pointed out ...

Every pretty patch of nature has the ability to draw us away from our overly tech-connected worlds. Yet there's something about Japanese gardens that seem to take us on a journey, to transport us, ...

EVEN THE most experienced gardeners make mistakes. The most they can hope is that when they move on to a new garden, they don’t repeat them. After 40 years in the design/build landscaping business, ...

CEO and Founder of Green Zen & JMB Project Management - Jennifer McShane Bary Green Zen leads the UAE in sustainable landscaping, busting myths with facts for smarter, climate-ready mulching. If mulch ...