The monks who built the world’s most famous Zen gardens weren’t sitting quietly beside them, gazing into the distance. They ...

Mark Kane, the garden editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, was here last month, trying to tell us the truth about Japanese gardening. His lecture at the Mechanics' Institute Library, sponsored ...

Ever since the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens reopened in June 2020 after the pandemic forced it to close for a few months, the garden’s curator Heather Grzybek said the number of visitors it ...

Zen monk and garden designer Masuno (Zen and Art of Minimalism) does for mental clutter what Marie Kondo has done for household clutter: pare down and simplify. Masuno offers 100 directives that he ...