For those of us who can’t travel to see them in Japan, we have some beautiful ones right here in Southern California.

5 Easy Zen Garden Ideas for Creating a Mini Dry Landscape at Home. Always wanted to make a dry landscape? Here are some easy Zen garden ideas, including what you need and how to complete it.

Landscape fabric. While zen gardens are low maintenance, Pogue said one of the ways you’ll have to care for it is by removing weeds that peek through the gravel.

Here are some Japanese garden ideas to bring a little zen to your landscape. Featured Partner. Advertisement. ... which we often see referred to as a zen garden,” said Kato.

Notable features include a bamboo garden, a Zen garden, tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, which is an authentic reproduction of a 19th-century Kyoto tea merchant’s house and shop.

Zen gardens are dry landscapes that date back centuries in Japan, says Bart Greenloe of Haiku Gardens Landscaping. "They evolved from the Shinto and Buddhist religions as an aid to meditation." ...

A traditional Zen garden is usually constructed of strategically placed rocks and raked stones with architectural type trees. This is referred to as a Japanese rock garden or dry landscape garden.

Shunmyo Masuno is regarded as Japan's leading garden designer and its most highly acclaimed landscape architect. A professor at Tama Art University, he is also a Zen Buddhist monk and still ...