My RHS Chelsea Flower Show highlights demonstrate how garden design is changing ... Celebrating traditional Japanese garden ideas, the display was a masterful fusion of tonal Acer trees, raked gravel ...

Bourne said those who specialize in Japanese garden design often spend years apprenticing ... it’s easy to substitute plants, Bourne said. Moss, for example, which is often seen in Japanese ...

A Japanese garden’s major design aesthetic is a simple ... The texture is achieved by various plants, from the softness of moss to the coarseness of pine foliage. Japanese gardens use artificial ...

Kokedama is a unique form of Japanese bonsai ... Start by soaking the moss in a bucket of water for one hour to rehydrate the organic material before you use it in the design.

After the moss garden, the looping path reaches ... Designer Tanaka of Portland Landscape Design and Japanese Garden Specialty reworked his plan and the city agreed to expand the original half ...

‘Moss ball bonsai,’ Kokedama is the Japanese art of planting without pots. A ball of soil or clay covered with moss is used to support the plant’s roots. Considered to be cheerful, peaceful ...

Mr. Keane compares this distillation of design and materials to a haiku, the Japanese three ... in a carpet of moss seems to dwindle off to infinity in the northern garden. And finally, to the ...