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

Traditional grass lawns require regular maintenance, which not everyone has time for. If you want to switch things up, here ...

While not a traditional Zen garden, the surrounding landscape was designed with Zen principles in mind. The reflection of the ...

Travel+Leisure has a wonderful article on how to make the most of your trip to Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto, the pulsing heart of ...

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 ...

For example, the placement of one large rock surrounded by several ... The gardens of Zen Buddhism: The dry gardens associated with Japan arose with the influence of Zen Buddhism.

For example, the placement of one large rock surrounded by several smaller ones to symbolize the mountains ... Finally, the garden was also a place for one to write one's own poems. The Gardens of Zen ...

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

The Japanese Garden in St Mawgan, Cornwall, has been named among the loveliest in the UK according to The Times ...

Hannah Wallace If you need an escape from urban landscapes, seek out Zen-like tranquility at the Japanese Garden within Washington Park. The 12-acre Portland Japanese Garden is made up of eight ...

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 Zen gardens on Earth are created by raking sand or gravel into curving patterns that interact with features like rocks, trees and plants. So how did this odd pattern shake out on Mars?