Welcome to the first post in our new blog series, NAJGA Visits. The NAJGA community includes over 250 Japanese-style gardens in North America. In addition to just wanting to spend as much time as possible in Japanese gardens, perhaps like you, we experience and...
During our Gresham Regional Workshop this September (21st-24th) organized in partnership with the Gresham Japanese Garden, we will visit the Memorial Healing Garden at the Oregon State Penitentiary. This is a unique opportunity to visit a garden that is a true...
by Michael Baldwin, CPRP, Parks and Recreation ManagerCity of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department Tucked inside of historic Brackenridge Park, lies the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, a limestone quarry, turned tranquil, multi-level, Asian-inspired garden...
Almost everything relating to our garden has value in the winter view. As shade is reduced from deciduous trees, light reaches deeper into the garden structure, revealing textures of hill and valley alike which are muted and dusky in summer months. Small details...
1) Bloedel Reserve (Bainbridge Island, Washington). Strolls for Well-being, Strolls at Home, Grief GroupsMore information: https://bloedelreserve.org/nature_well-being/ 2) Japanese Friendship Garden & Museum (San Diego, California). Mondays, Wednesdays,...
As the Covid 19 pandemic demonstrates, nature destroys. Yet, as we in the Japanese garden field know, nature also heals. Japanese gardens have been built for many reasons but fundamental to most styles is a humanized naturalism that speaks to our desire to connect...
As a liminal space between childhood and the full independence of adulthood, college is an intense time with exhilarating highs, discouraging lows, and diverse responsibilities, tasks, and stressors. Now constantly connected there is little respite, with every...
