However, the idea that most immediately caught the team's attention was that of Japanese dry gardens, made up of sand and gravel. "Initially, that direction was called 'the walled garden,' which ...

There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, ...

It’s no coincidence if Japanese gardens remind you of those scene-in-a-shoebox dioramas you made in grade school. A Japanese ...

Are you aiming for a shady garden layered with trees and shrubs, or a dry garden featuring artful arrangements of rock, stone, gravel, and sand? Whatever goals you have for your ornamental gardening ...

A garden doesn't have to have plants in it! A dry garden can contain multitudes – the idea that the vast (even the whole world) can be represented in the small, controlled space of a garden is not ...

The gardens of Zen Buddhism: The dry gardens associated with Japan arose ... The source for this article is “Japanese Garden Design” by Marc Peter Keane. Highly recommended!

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught sight of an unusual boulder-strewn landscape with strange patterns not seen ...

controlled space of a garden is not unique to Zen Buddhism, but is often used as a guiding principle in Japanese dry gardens, where rocks can represent mountains and raked sand the sea (as the ...

Japanese gardens come in all shapes and sizes, from zen gardens to small courtyard gardens to the larger tea and stroll gardens that are designed to be walked around rather than viewed from a static ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has clicked the photo of a region on the red planet that looks like a Japanese dry zen garden. It recently snapped the Daedalia Planum from orbit where ...

The seven idyllic acres feature a selection of Japanese garden forms, including a stroll garden, pond and island garden, and a dry garden, as well as woodland walks. Always check the garden's website ...