Calming, simple, serene, Japanese Zen gardens are the complete opposite of busy, loud urban life. Beautifully lush green planting, interrupted by soft rounded stones and swathes of gravel raked into ...

One of the most important aspects of Zen gardens is minimalism. By keeping only the essentials in your space, you can reduce ...

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

Creating a garden in an overgrown acreage can be an awesome task. Creating gardens and a Zen Forest would be even more daunting. But George Klasson and Jane Bourgeois knew they could make a tranquil ...

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 ...

Looking back on his childhood in a Seattle suburb, Mike Donohue remembers his family’s backyard garden of a few planter boxes with fruits and vegetables. But, even then, he dreamed of having his own ...