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 the place in ...

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 ...

Whether you’re looking to create a rock garden, incorporate a few elements of Japanese design to your existing landscape or just want to add a bonsai to your home, there are plenty of gardens in San ...

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 ...

Creating a Zen garden is a wonderful way to cultivate a peaceful and serene space in your backyard. Japanese gardens are ...

Mini-Zen gardens, inspired by ancient Zen Buddhism, offer a meditative and relaxing experience through sand manipulation and design creation. The author, a cancer survivor, uses a Zen garden to manage ...

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 ...

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 ...

Duluth hasn't quite figured out the way of a zen garden yet. "What's this all about?" a pre-teenaged boy said breathlessly as he and a group bolted up an Enger Park path to the Peace Bell on Friday, ...

Nestled in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden is one of the city's most popular places, attracting visitors from around the globe, yet it still manages to retain a sense of ...