The ancient art of Japanese garden design offers a profound sense of tranquility and a deep connection to the natural world ...

Looking for some garden inspiration? Let’s do some “armchair travelling” across the Pacific to one of the world’s loveliest places for garden viewing: Kyoto, Japan. Do you want your garden to be a ...

Often drawing from ancient philosophies of Buddhism and Taoism, a Japanese garden emphasizes harmony, restraint, and a carefully curated sensory experience. While these green spaces have long captured ...

Ever since the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens reopened in June 2020 after the pandemic forced it to close for a few months, the garden’s curator Heather Grzybek said the number of visitors it ...

Japanese-style gardens first caught the public imagination in the U.S. at an 1893 world exposition in Chicago, became a sought-after feature in Gilded Age estates and were later adapted to open-plan ...

I enjoy and appreciate all garden styles, but Japanese garden style is my favorite. The uncrowded bed design, well placed ornaments and natural building materials lend a sense of balance and allow ...

Last week on “You Can Grow It,” garden master Jim Duthie highlighted some of the most popular things he’s shared with us during the past year. So today he’s back with more, from Japanese garden design ...

According to Günter Nitschke in his book about Japanese Gardens, the washitsu emerged alongside the development of the Japanese dry landscape garden during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. During ...

There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, which focused on the history and meaning of Japanese gardens. Indeed, in Kyoto ...