Blog Entries tagged 'zen garden'

Introduction To Herb Garden Designs

ola@artweb-media.com — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Designing your very own herb garden does not have to be a difficult task. When one thinks of herb garden designs he or she may think of sketch pads to draw out a plan and blueprints; but, this does not have to be the case although if you choose you can opt for this method.

Designing an herb garden can be lots of fun and you can customize it to your particular needs. Although a lot of planning is not required there is some planning that will obviously need [...]

Zen Gardens: Go Green With A Dry Landscape

ola@artweb-media.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Zen Gardens: What Really is a Zen Style Japanese Garden? I was reading an article about Japanese gardens where the author got all bent out of shape about how western culture mistakenly refers to “dry landscape” style gardens in Japan as “Zen Gardens”. Their point was that the term “Zen Garden” has become loosely defined only because historically, some Zen Buddhist Monasteries built Karesansui style gardens and therefore, all dry landscape gardens are “ [...]