Choose Your Location The first step to creating your Zen garden starts with deciding on where to build it. The best location depends on your surroundings. The Garden Design website recommends using a ...

An award-winning landscape designer created this brand-new tiny house as part of a heavenly Japanese garden with a sauna and ...

I love native plants. I love them for many reasons, all of which you’ve no doubt heard before if you yourself are a native ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes we just need a little escape – somewhere we can breathe, slow down, and reset. That’s where a ...

Here are five surprising ways the Japanese cherish nature every day. Forest bathing, or Shinrin-yoku, is all about immersing yourself in a forest environment to feel better. It involves walking slowly ...

Azaleas and rhododendrons are also popular choices for a Japanese-inspired garden. ‘Azaleas and rhododendrons are widely used ...

The Parc Floral de Paris and its 35 hectares in the heart of the Bois de Vincennes is a mine of discoveries.

If your garden is overlooked or has an unsightly feature that needs covering up, planting certain shrubs and hedges could be the answer. Plants can add privacy and screening to gardens and can ...

Being named the best garden center in CT goes beyond having a plentiful, hardy selection of plants and flowers — although that’s definitely a plus. Locals voted and named the top CT plant ...

Some of the most breathtaking zen garden patterns on the planet owe their existence to an unlikely artist: thousands of tiny "ice needles." Credit: Quan-Xing Liu of East China Normal University ...

“Colocasia thrives in wet soil, making it the perfect pick for ponds, rain gardens, and boggy areas,” says Vater. “It is highly water-tolerant and is found in nature growing in swamps and riverbanks.” ...

Snails and slugs can destroy a garden in spring by eating newly established flowers or spreading fungal infections by leaving a slimy mucus trail on plants. However, you do not have to spend time ...