The Japanese courtyard garden is not a garden that is actually entered and used… it is built specifically for visual […]

Understanding and an appreciation of the nature and spirit of Japanese gardens must come before you begin the planning and […]

The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces A thousand years of tradition comes to life in the contemporary gardens showcased […]

The hill and pond style of Japanese gardens is quite popular. Also known as the “pond and island” style, it’s […]

Japanese tea gardens are a fairly new garden concept, only being introduced to the Japanese culture sometime between 300 and […]

Books List Garden Plants of Japan Japanese plants have had an unmistakable influence on the gardens of the world. Who […]

Have you ever walked by someone’s front garden and thought – what were they thinking? The mixture and variety of […]

Bamboo is a mysterious and elusive plant that baffles taxonomists who try to contain it within a botanical class and […]

Japanese stroll gardens are very large park gardens. These were a legacy from the Chinese imperial hunting parks that Japanese […]

Azaleas can be either evergreen or deciduous. Deciduous Azaleas are known as Mollis or Exbury Azaleas. They bloom in the […]

The Japanese rock garden is known by a few names: dry-landscape style, Zen garden, flat garden style, and Kare-Sansui (which […]