STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With spring finally here it can be a good time for outdoor activities. Gardening is a popular hobby, particularly in warmer weather. One can garden in their backyard, but if ...

Always wanted to make a dry landscape? Here are some easy Zen garden ideas, including what you need and how to complete it. A Zen garden, otherwise known as a Japanese rock garden, is meant to be a ...

I didn't set out to create a Zen garden. I just wanted to make the view better. The area in question was wracked by tree roots that I knew would not be compatible with traditional plantings. I thought ...

Today is the third and last day of Japan Week in Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal. The primary highlight is a Zen garden, offered as a respite for busy New Yorkers. Delineated in the space by ...

When Paul Jackson’s son graduated from high school, he received an unconventional but welcome gift: six yards of pea gravel. “He wanted a Zen rock garden,” Jackson said. “He pointed out the place in ...

In our fast-paced, hard-edged, pressure-cooker world, it’s important to step back regularly and return to the basics. And there’s nothing more basic than returning to the fundamental elements that ...

The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is perfectly ...

Duluth hasn't quite figured out the way of a zen garden yet. "What's this all about?" a pre-teenaged boy said breathlessly as he and a group bolted up an Enger Park path to the Peace Bell on Friday, ...