Adding Japanese garden elements to your home garden is easy. “It depends on what style one is going for,” said Kato, “But one way to do so is to incorporate the three primary elements of ...

If you say 'Japanese garden', what comes to mind for many people is an area filled with fine, raked gravel. It's the most iconic—and photogenic—feature of these gardens.

If this style of outdoor design has piqued your interest as much as it has mine, let's venture further into the art of Japanese garden design and explore the concepts that make it whole.

The Japanese Garden at the Cleveland Botanical Garden is celebrating 50 years with the "Between Water and Stone" exhibit.

In the garden, “the (right) look will give you that feeling.” Bourne said those who specialize in Japanese garden design often spend years apprenticing under master gardeners in Japan.

The Northern Plains Botanic Garden Society hopes to hire Uchiyama, one of America's premier experts on Japanese garden design, as a consultant for its own Japanese garden project. Uchiyama is in ...

“The Japanese approach a garden differently; they approach it from the inside out,” he says, explaining a principle of Japanese design that is difficult, at first, for Western thought to grasp.

Japanese garden design in this country has moved well beyond stereotypical features like lanterns and imported Japanese cherries and maples, says Sadafumi Uchiyama, chief curator of the Portland ...

The Japanese Garden, at 6100 Woodley Avenue, is open Monday-Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 10 to 4 on Sundays. Docent led morning tours are available. For more information, call 818-756 ...

Takeo Uesugi, a landscape architect who melded the principles of traditional Japanese gardens to the modernism of postwar California, where he carried on his ancestral legacy as a 14th-generation ...

The Portland Japanese Garden was founded in 1963 when civic leaders "banded together to build a Japanese garden on the site of an abandoned old zoo in Washington Park," according to the garden's ...