If you’ve ever been to a Japanese garden, you’ll remember the extraordinary sense of peace and tranquillity these gardens help inspire. Japanese gardens also look very different from Western ...

One of the extraordinary things about Japanese garden design is how immediately identifiable it is to the western eye, yet how thoroughly it defies description. Even when earnest instructors try very ...

Bamboo trees stand tall in this Japanese garden. Photo by Kevin Legnon. Noted for its minimalist style, natural landscape and tranquil nature, the Japanese garden is as much art as it is science. To ...

Soothing sounds, warmth in textures, dulcet silhouettes of foliage, and a surrounding tranquility that can mould a simple urban garden into an oasis that feels personal and beautiful. That's what ...

Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for other leading online home improvement, DIY, and garden media outlets and online ...

You can learn basic elements of garden design by visiting the Japanese garden in Woodley Park in Van Nuys, starting with the entrance gates. There are three contiguous gates, but only one is open.

Japanese-style gardens first caught the public imagination in the U.S. at an 1893 world exposition in Chicago, became a sought-after feature in Gilded Age estates and were later adapted to open-plan ...

Looking for some garden inspiration? Let’s do some “armchair travelling” across the Pacific to one of the world’s loveliest places for garden viewing: Kyoto, Japan. Do you want your garden to be a ...

This image provided by Robert C. Muschewske/ Summit Images, LLC shows a garden around a single family home in St. Paul, Minnesota. The courtyard shows the entry courtyard, where the landscape suggests ...

Sadafumi Uchiyama didn't talk much as he strolled Friday through the site of the Northern Botanic Garden Society's future Japanese garden in north Fargo. After all, the concept of a Japanese garden is ...

Lotusland’s Japanese Garden is now open after an extensive renovation. Construction began in February 2017 with a design that would honor the original 1960s garden and vision of Madame Walska and ...

What does 15th century Japan have to do with 21st century California? Not a little, if Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's $100 million estate is to be believed. The designers and builders of the Ellison digs, ...