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 ...

A beautifully raked Zen garden enclosed by tall hedging plants - Wynn Wygal/Shutterstock Zen gardens were first created by Buddhist monks way back in the sixth century as a quiet space for meditation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for other leading online home improvement, DIY, and garden media outlets and online ...

The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is perfectly ...

I didn't set out to create a Zen garden. I just wanted to make the view better. The area in question was wracked by tree roots that I knew would not be compatible with traditional plantings. I thought ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...