Artistic designs raked in fine gravel around carefully placed boulders offer peaceful settings for contemplation gardens. Known as karesansui (pronounced car-uh-san-swee), the dry landscape gardens ...

Oak Ridge’s wealth of volunteers and community support for a new Japanese dry landscape garden surprised and delighted an Asian garden specialist who recently visited Oak Ridge to speak about the ...

A large doorway framing a minimalistic Japanese garden with raked gravel and plants - Tekinturkdogan/Getty Images In the late sixth century, Zen Buddhist monks began creating simple gardens as a ...

I am going to stick my neck out and speculate that the Japanese did not invent the gravel garden in the 12th century A.D. Much of what Japanese gardens were, were interpretations of ancient Chinese ...

Normally at this time of year, with the Philadelphia Flower Show rapidly approaching, Delaware Valley College Professor John Martin has lots of things to worry about. Are the flowers to be used in the ...

Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Association's garden exemplifies wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfection and age, central to Japanese aesthetics valuing simplicity. The Kaimyo-in Japanese Garden, a ...