Zen in Your Garden: Creating Sacred Spaces

Zen in Your Garden: Creating Sacred Spaces
Full of colorful, striking photographs and insightful commentary this Zen gardening book is an essential guide to the most serene of Japanese traditional arts.

The Japanese Zen garden is a triumph of simplicity, a space in which balance is emphasized to create a place of stillness and sanctuary. Zen in Your Garden offers readers a comprehensive and practical guide to creating a sacred space for meditation and contemplation. Learn how your garden can stimulate your senses to either energize or soothe you and discover what type of garden you need, as well as how to convert your existing garden to one designed on Zen principles. Boxed features, illustrated with detailed drawings, show you how to build specific features such as gravel and rock landscapes.

Zen in Your Garden includes beautiful photographs of outstanding gardens from around the world to help you consider the various styles you might wish to work onâ€”rock and gravel; water gardens; shade, moss, and woodland; courtyards; and nature and wildlife gardens. Planting is explored in detail so that you may choose a landscape that has something for all seasons and creates a pleasing form and balance. This book beautifully illustrates and clearly details the many elements of gardening from a Zen perspective and offers you both the creative inspiration and the practical guidance to develop your own.

Zen gardening topics include:
- A modern interpretation
- Water gardens
- Nature and wildlife gardens
- Planting guidelines
- Zen in a small place

Country	USA
Author	Jenny Hendy
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Jenny Hendy
EAN	9780804847537
Feature	Zen in Your Garden Creating Sacred Spaces
ISBN	0804847533
Label	Tuttle Publishing
Manufacturer	Tuttle Publishing
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	128
PublicationDate	2016-07-26
Publisher	Tuttle Publishing
ReleaseDate	2016-07-26
Studio	Tuttle Publishing

Zen in Your Garden: Creating Sacred Spaces

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