“A Zen garden is about elevating people and nature. It doesn’t have to embody the same landscape vocabulary as a Japanese garden. The lexicon of plants and materials should be what brings you joy.

This sound bowl, $43.99 from Wayfair, comes in a beautiful style made with sustainably harvested Himalayan Lokta paper on top of a recycled paperboard. ... Zen garden kit: $52.97.

There's something appealing in the simplicity of Zen rock gardens. One of six styles of Japanese gardens, the Zen rock garden represents a miniature and idealized view of nature.

How to create a Japanese garden at home. There are many different types of Japanese gardens, including sand and stone gardens. People commonly refer to these as zen gardens because they’re ...

For this Zen garden, Macula used rocks, crushed seashells and some colored glass. - Michele Macula places dirt in the flower pot with the help of Anthony P, a Lifestyles participant, as they begin ...

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 ...

This summer has been one of extreme heat, smoky air, wild winds, monsoon rainstorms and unaccustomed humidity. What is needed now is serenity, beauty or, more precisely, a Zen garden, healing ...

In this Terry Vekris-designed Zen garden, a rectangular bed of raked gravel is edged in polished limestone and blue-black moonrock. The gravel, representative of a body of water, is raked into ...

Zen garden is one for the angels 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 ...

Today’s Zen Garden demonstration is from 3:30 to 4:30 PM and the workshops are from 1 to 2 PM and 5 to 6 PM. This year’s Japan Week also honors Chiune Sugihara, ...