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 ...

If you're looking for a different plant type because it's no longer needed, you can check our page for All Plant Types. What Are Zen Plants in Grow a Garden? Here are all the Zen Plant types in Grow a ...

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 ...

There are so many possibilities when it comes to creating a container garden. Whether positioned on a patio, used for herbs, or full of bright annuals, you can create a range of different aesthetics ...

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

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 ...

Most home gardeners agree that perennials are less trouble than annual bedding plants, because “they come back every year so you don’t have to plant them again and again”. We agree with this sentiment ...