The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

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 ...

Kinkaku-ji, or the Golden Pavilion, is a Zen Buddhist temple and one of Kyoto's iconic sights. Its brilliant gold leaf ...

Using lanterns to illuminate your paths or doorways ... to personalise your zen garden while staying on the theme is to buy sculptures made of natural materials. If you want to stick as authentic as ...

And then there are Zen gardens, often courtyards of raked gravel tended by Buddhist monks, where strategically placed rocks are sited for the purpose of meditation. Ivo Dawnay All subscribe to the ...

Whatever goals you have for your ornamental gardening space, the long tradition of Japanese garden design can provide ... bringing with them Zen Buddhism, with its emphasis on meditation as the path ...

Explore how Latin American homes create meditative spaces using earthy tones and natural materials that connect us to nature.

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 unique to Zen Buddhism, but is often used as a ...

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 ...