A ‘humanistic garden’ has emerged the winner in a design contest for a preservation corridor around the Qing-era Lung Tsun stone bridge in Kai Tak. A team of architects and landscapers from the University of Hong Kong came out tops with their ‘Broken Bridge, Hidden Dragon’ concept – a futuristic walkway built above the Qing-dynasty ruins and surrounded by gardens and open spaces.

The garden’s name was a twist on the name of the bridge, Lung Tsun, which is based on the Chinese poem, Gathering the Dragon, Connecting the Piers.

The three-storey design, which includes an amphitheatre, artificial forest, urban garden and a canal, will also provide open spaces for street performances. The first floor will be a plaza, the second an exhibition space, and the third a pedestrian bridge.

When completed, the 300-metre corridor will link the pedestrian subway across Prince Edward Road East to Shek Ku Lung Road Playground and the Kowloon Walled City Park.

“It’s hard to track the origins of the idea, but the overall objective was to pay respect to the ruins and also to provide space for those who live and work in the area,” team leader and HKU assistant professor of architecture Gao Yan said.

“It’s an example of urban nature – a mix of artificial and natural; a new bridge crossing over an old bridge. It’s a humanistic garden.”

Gao, together with his four team members Tsui Ho-cheung, Chang Qiang, Virginia Goh and Huang Wen-ying, will share a cash price of HK$400,000 for their winning design.

The ruins of the almost 150-year-old Qing-dynasty Lung Tsun stone bridge were discovered in 2008. After a series of debates, the government decided to preserve the ruins as a special cultural heritage asset.

But Civil Engineering and Development Department senior engineer Peter Chui Si-Kay said the project would not start until at least 2018.

“There are still road and infrastructure works going on at Kai Tak, so construction will not begin any time soon,” he said.

The winning design in the open group competition was ‘Condensation of Memory’, which was awarded a HK$80,000 cash prize

 

17 January 2014
| By Elizabeth Hopkirk

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Friday, 17 January 2014

RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winners and designers from Australia and the Republic of Korea will show their garden designs at the first ‘miNiATURE’ show.

The show, which will show models of gardens which have been created with the help of 3D printers has been created to provide a platform for innovative ideas in garden design which might be harder to show in a real garden.

Taking part from the United Kingdom are John Brookes, Jamie Dunstan, Sarah Eberle, Adam Frost, Andy Sturgeon, Jo Thompson and Wilson McWilliams.

From Australia Myles Baldwin and Jim Fogarty will be exhibiting and from the Republic of Korea Jihae Hwang.

The show is the brainchild of British designers Tom Harfleet and Andrew Fisher Tomlin and Kajsa Bjorne, a landscape designer based in Sweden and Australia.

Bjorne said: “We are really fortunate to have these internationally recognised designers taking part in the show. All were keen to discover how 3D printing, along with traditional modeling techniques, could support their design.”

She added ” Modeling has allowed the designers to break away from requirements about budget and allowed them to experiment with ideas that you won’t ever have seen in gardens before. They might be minature gardens but there are some big new ideas here that we predict might change people’s perceptions of what might be possible.”

MiNiATURE has also announced further sponsors with The Outdoor Room and Provender Nurseries sponsoring individual gardens and joining lead sponsors hobs3D and the London College of Garden Design.

It runs from 5 to 8 March at The Strand Gallery in central London.

January is that awful time of year which demands a bit of introspection, a looking back at the past year’s highs and lows.

Resolutions are a step too far for me, as I just can’t keep them. So instead I stood the other day at the kitchen window contemplating the dead, jumbled mess that passes for my winter garden. I thought, well I’m not Piet Oudolf, but I came to the fore in spring and summer when the garden looks amazing. I cast back my mind back, expecting some rather good memories but was faced with the reality that although the borders are lush, they are essentially just chaotic.

I was struck by the sudden thought that I wasn’t in fact very good at gardening. This was a rather unpleasant surprise as it’s meant to be my thing. Occasionally I’m lucky and get a great combination – last year it was red geum with tall green astrantia, blue nigella and fading forget-me-nots. Even at the time, I realised this was a happenchance event and in no way planned. If I’m honest, I thought I would just “do design” because I love plants, and a good, beautiful garden would fall out from that. However, that doesn’t seem to be happening.

After this revealing look at myself and my own garden, I started to think about the notion of garden design. At one level it’s easy. Garden design is done by people who have a qualification and make money out of it. They take another’s vision and requirements and bring them to life. They design to order, under scrutiny and with time and money pressures. On the other hand, there are amazing gardens designed by amateurs by and for themselves. This disjunction is interesting: I was delighted when I came across Anna Pavord’s article in The Independent about the writer Rory Stuart. Firstly I was struck by this:

In this country (though probably nowhere else) it’s a particular badge of honour to call your patch a “plantsman’s garden”… But our emphasis on plants has often been at the expense of the spaces in which they are put. We’re not as comfortable with design as we are with decoration.

Photograph: Chris Howes/Wild Places Photography/Alamy

So has Anna got to the essence of what garden design is? It makes sense in relation to what I find with my own garden. Putting together a pleasing combination or border does not a designer make. To design a garden you have to create a whole, a dynamic narrative that leaders the visitor through the space in a coherent, cohesive way. I agree with that, and yet if that is right I could never be a garden designer with my standard London garden. You can see from one end to the other and the only narrative is a line from the back door to the shed. Rory Stuart tackles this issue like this:

Even if you are just growing lettuces on a balcony, you can still try to make the most of the lettuces. Choose different colours. Different leaf shapes. Arrange the pots in a different way. Symmetry or asymmetry?

This reminds me of a friend being told by their careers adviser “never mind if you end up with a job at McDonald’s, you can always try and be the manager”.

Although the basis of this lettuce thing was probably right, I felt it was patronising. Which is one of the problems with design. Those who do it and know about it can talk with a confidence and knowledge that excludes those who don’t. It has always been the case that language and qualifications have been used to prevent the amateur from getting into the “club”. However, with so much knowledge at our finger tips now we can all learn everything. We have the internet and blogs and websites, so there isn’t a moment of the day when we can’t inform ourselves.

Our age has been dubbed by some as the age of the amateur. This makes me think about MasterChef. The standard of cooking on the program is extraordinary, and it is ridiculous to say the winners fall short of professional standards. Imagine if you had the same thing for garden design – the results would be similar I’m sure. I suppose this leads me, personally, to believe that it is the thinking and caring that marks out a garden designer. As Anna continues:

The writer Rory Stuart wonders why we don’t approach gardens in the same way as we might an exhibition of sculpture, why we don’t take more trouble to analyse why some things work and some, in our opinion, don’t.

I would say that the garden designers among us do approach the gardens in exactly this way and it is that which makes them designers. Design is an artistic endeavor but it is also intellectual. This is not a final note in the great garden design debate, it is only another string to its bow. I like that: it’s an ongoing debate which will keep us all talking and interested. I hope to write another article soon with a totally contradictory and valid opinion. For now, however, I leave the last word to the American garden designer Joe Eck as he seems to know what he’s talking about:

“The more one looks at gardens, actually or in books, and the more one thinks about them and tries to isolate what is pleasing about them (or not), the better one’s own garden is likely to be.

• Lucy Masters is a plant enthusiast who loves to garden. She founded the website wikigardening.com and has an intermittent blog, Sometimes Gardening.

The Tree Garden Company Limited provides dedicated garden designing, landscaping and maintenance service at reasonable cost in North London and Hertfordshire.

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United Kingdom, January 16, 2014: Gardens are often referred to as
representative of the paradise Earth. However, only maintained gardens are
havens of peace as those that are neglected often turn into bushy forest. House
owners may be able to take care of their front gardens but those that are in
public places and cover vast expanse need professional assistance. The Tree
Garden Company Limited is an established gardening service provider in the
United Kingdom. The company has dedicated garden designers and
tree surgeons who
offer customised designing, landscaping and maintenance service according to the
preference of clients. Besides beautification and maintenance, environment and
health are also the focus of the agency. However, Tree Garden caters to
gardening only in North London and Hertfordshire.

Tree and
Garden Company has more than 2 decades of experience in gardening and services
related to it. The company provides fence installation, maintenance, repair,
lawn mowing, grass cutting, turf supply, laying and paving alongside driveways
according to the drainage of the area

A garden is
any open place with grassy land and varieties of plantations. Apart from public
parks, gardens can be found within the premises of private residences, offices,
educational institutes, medical centres, etc. The design and landscape of a
garden obviously has to be according to the building that compounds it and the
operation going on in the premises. Moreover, gardens are private properties and
so are usually different from each other. In short, all gardens are not same and
need to be maintained according to the area, climate, soil of the region, and
nature of operation that is carried out in the premises. Garden
landscapers and designers at Tree Garden are specifically
involved with such responsibilities throughout the year. They are skilled and
experienced in designing suitable gardens, landscaping gardens for
beautification and maintaining gardens.

Trees and
other plantations are the main component of a garden. However, a green place can
be called a park or a garden only when its botanical features are appropriate
and accommodative to people. Remains of a decayed tree, wild bushes that
overwhelm other plants, precariously hanging branch of a tree, etc. need
tree surgery. In fact, arborists and tree
surgeons are the people who render garden maintenance.
They study how trees react to pruning, diseases that might affect the garden or
a species of tree in it, how trees grow and their biomechanics. They are expert
in groundwork, safe use of harness, rope and chainsaws, tree climbing, etc. In
other words, they are the professionals who ensure that the work of gardens
landscapers can be enjoyed for prolonged period.

About
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URL: http://www.treeandgarden.net

The Tree
Garden Company Limited is more than decades-old agency that caters to gardening
demands in North London and Hertfordshire. It provides all types of fencing,
lawn care, paving and turf services. All types of garden designing, landscaping
and maintenance are offered by Tree Garden.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a multiplayer-focused third-person shooter, which means that much of its appeal — the charm and humor we expect from the Plants vs. Zombies series — depends upon its characters. Developer PopCap Games has to transform the previous games’ stylized 2D figures into dynamic polygonal models, and bring them to life with high-fidelity visuals as well as sound cues that make sense in a 3D space. Plus, the new characters have to conform to the gameplay context of a shooter as opposed to a strategy title.

“The vision is for us to make characters that feel like they still fit in the PvZ universe,” said Brian Lindley, a producer on Garden Warfare, in a phone interview with Polygon last week.

At the same time, PopCap is striving to make each of Garden Warfare‘s classes feel special. The studio wants the characters to “look cool [so] that you want to acquire them,” and is making an effort to give the characters “some additional tweaks and changes to their primary weapon and abilities,” said Lindley. A number of variations are available for each of the four plant classes and four zombie classes, such as versions of the characters based on elemental powers like fire.

the characters have to “feel like they still fit in the PvZ universe”

But PopCap is aiming to design individual classes that play relatively similarly, regardless of the variant a player chooses and the customization options the player outfits their characters with. And one of the keys for that design process is humor: According to Lindley, PopCap is making an effort to ensure that “everything surrounding [the characters’] presentation just is rewarding and fun, and makes you smile and laugh or grit your teeth and want to keep fighting.”

For the most part, that comes through in the visuals. All the characters bear the goofy look that’s the hallmark of Plants vs. Zombies series — for example, the zombies’ different-sized eyeballs go a long way toward making them appear less menacing. And if you see the Engineer zombie, a mashup of characters like the Handyman and Miner, from behind, you’ll catch a glimpse of some plumber’s butt.

PopCap faced some interesting challenges in creating both the plant and zombie characters in Garden Warfare. The studio had to create most of the zombies from scratch, because the series’ existing zombies were “very one-dimensional — they kind of did one thing,” Lindley explained. And while the developers used plant characters that were already present in Plants vs. Zombies, they had to spend more time figuring out appropriate sounds for the various plant classes because “they’re kind of the most abstract when you look at the characters themselves and what it is they’re actually doing.”

Here’s a closer look at four of the variants for the plant classes: the Future Cactus, Hot Rod Chomper, Mystic Flower and Ice Pea.

The Future Cactus came about because “we wanted to make something that was a bit more tech-y,” said Lindley, explaining that most of Garden Warfare‘s other characters are designed around elemental powers. The Cactus class focuses on ranged shooting, but the Future Cactus is the only Cactus variant with a charge attack, which you can prepare by holding the right trigger. It works in three phases, and the most powered-up version does a lot of damage. “It’s something that makes the character really unique to play, compared to the other variants,” Lindley added.

Another plant with a charged attack is the Mystic Flower, a Sunflower that is “powered by mysterious energy.” Holding down the trigger will charge up its powerful sunbeam, which can be unleashed as a crowd-control attack or used to deal damage to a single strong enemy.

the Hot Rod Chomper sports a shiny black coat of paint with purple flames

Melee-oriented players will likely choose the Chomper, which resembles the Mario games’ Piranha Plant in that it’s a big, spherical mouth on a stem. But the Hot Rod Chomper, which sports a shiny black coat of paint with purple flames, changes things up with a focus on speed. While it has lower health than the standard Chomper, it has a unique special ability: If it can take down a zombie with an instant kill (a sneak attack from below or behind), it will get a speed boost. “If you’re good with the Chomper, you can use the Hot Rod Chomper to quickly run from victim to victim, if you manage to string a bunch together,” said Lindley.

Many of Garden Warfare‘s classes work well in conjunction with a teammate playing as the Ice Pea. This Peashooter variant fires peas of ice, and if enough ice peas hit a zombie, it will be immobilized and left vulnerable to attack. Combinations of not just classes, but unique variants like the Ice Pea, are where “the tactics and strategy start to emerge,” said Lindley.

Lindley hinted that PopCap is planning to expand Garden Warfare with additional class variants for both plants and zombies after the game’s release. For more details, check out our hands-on preview from November.

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“The new site is more user-friendly and i…and can be accessed more quickly and enables easier navigation on mobile devices.”

Carpinteria, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2014

Eye of the Day Garden Design Center , one of the leading authentic European garden pottery vendors in the U.S.A, announces its new website design. The digital makeover is part of the garden design center’s marketing expansion throughout the United States.

The new site is more user-friendly and is now configured with html coding, which can be accessed more quickly and enables easier navigation on mobile devices. The products offered by Eye of the Day are broken down by clear categories, so interested individuals on the go can browse the full line of traditional to modern pottery, fountains, benches and statuary on a desktop, tablet or smartphone. Further, each product has a downloadable and printable spec sheet in pdf format, helpful for presentations, books and inspiration and design boards.

“With the new website design, we can update the site more easily on our end,” said Marketing Director Mitch Walker, “which is especially good news for Eye of the Day. That means we can maintain our product lines and new arrivals instantaneously, so our customers will immediately see what’s available.”

In addition to the new format, there is also a full listing of French outdoor patio furniture from Fermob, along with updated color photos. Another centralized feature of the site is Eye of the Day’s blog (http://news.eyeofthedaygdc.com/) discussing industry and company news, like Freitas’ recent contribution to http://www.NewHomeSource.com, in which he discussed materials that should be used for safe, durable fire pits.

“We’re working to make 2014 our most successful year to date,” said Freitas. “I’m passionate about my products, and I want to invite new customers to see why we’re one of the top showrooms and why we work with top designers.”

The Santa Barbara-based company also offers a variety of services to the general residential and business consumer, along with services to industry specialists, like landscape architects and designers. Interested parties can browse the site with more ease and can show their clientele more downloadable images. Eye of the Day will also work with clients and specialists to build custom pieces, create custom finishes, and convert items into fully functioning fountains with its conversion services.

For more information about Eye of the Day Garden Center and to browse the website, visit http://www.eyeofthedaygdc.com.

About Eye of the Day Garden Design Center

Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is a retail showroom featuring more than an acre of high quality garden products, including Italian terra cotta pottery and fountains, Greek terra cotta and French Anduze pottery, as well as products from America’s oldest pottery manufactures Gladding McBean, EOTD also carries premier concrete garden pottery and statuary manufacturers. Eye of the Day is a leading importer of fine European garden décor, and caters to private consumers, as well as landscape and design professionals around the world.

To find out what Eye of the Day Garden Design Center can do for your business, visit http://www.eyeofthedaygdc.com.

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Master Gardeners of Summit County, a nonprofit organization affiliated with The Ohio State University Extension in Summit County, will have its annual Design Beyond 2014 symposium on Jan. 18 at Zwisler Hall – St. Sebastian’s Church, 348 Elmdale Ave. in Akron from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Cost for the day, including continental breakfast, lunch and materials, is $40. Attendees will be able to purchase books and have them signed.

Presenters will include:

David L. Culp, creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pa. In his presentation, The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, David will discuss how to recreate the display of his two-acre garden. It contains a basic lesson in layering. His second presentation will be 50 Perennials I Cannot Live Without.

Debra Knapke, an author, who with Allison Beck, has written Perennials for Ohio, Annuals for Ohio, Gardening Month by Month in Ohio and Best Garden Plants for Ohio; and written Herb Gardening for the Midwest with Laura Peters. Knapke will present: Simplifying Your Garden without Diminishing Your Joy. She will use her own garden and others to provide inspiration for the creation of a simpler, blissful garden.

Jim McCormac, works with the Ohio Division of Wildlife specializing in non-game wildlife diversity issues, especially birds. He will share a presentation on butterflies and moths. This program will explore the four-part life cycle of butterflies and moths, their ecological roles in the environment and practical ways people can support them.

Danae Wolfe is the OSU Extension as Summit County’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator. She will give a short presentation about native gardening – Go Native!

Go to the Master Gardeners website www.summitmastergardeners.org for more information.

“Ask a Designer” Booth Offers Professional Landscape Design Advice
At the San Francisco Flower Garden Show

Bring your garden design dilemmas to the San Francisco Flower Garden Show and get 30 minutes of advice from a professional landscape designer at the “Ask a Designer” booth. The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) has teamed up with the garden show to provide you this first-ever opportunity to sit down with a designer for some quick and affordable tips and solutions for your… Show more own garden.

How does it work?
You make reservations here and pre-pay for a 30-minute time slot for $30 (plus a small ticketing service fee). At the show you will be assigned your own personal designer.

You are encouraged to prepare in advance and bring photos of your existing landscape and of landscapes you love, your existing site plan, plant lists whatever you’d like to share with your designer. You will go away with valuable professional guidance that will help launch you toward the next step in your design process.

What can be accomplished in your 30-minute session?
Here are some ideas:

*a review of the plants on your wish list
*suggestions for creating a list of plants that work well together and are suitable for your site
*ideas for translating the look of a garden show display to a real-life home landscape
*coaching on how to organize your ideas into an overall theme for your landscape
*professional feedback on your own landscape ideas
*resources for finding plants, hardscape materials and decorative elements
*learn in detail about the step-by-step process of professional landscape design

Sign up now to secure your consultation time slot.

* Consultation fee does NOT include show entrance or parking. Please arrive 10 mins. prior to your appointment.

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Japanese healing gardens are created to remember and remind us of the fragility of life and the beauty that awakens each and very moment, giving attention to that which is right before us, in our now. In the blog series on Japanese Healing Gardens, I will take you on the path towards understanding the healing and restorative capabilities that a Japanese Healing Garden can offer for yourself, a family member or in memory of a loved one. It is only in awareness and education that one can truly begin living Zen.

When someone experiences a great loss, we can never know exactly how that person feels, yet we can honor. Through the the essence of  water, Koi, plants, stone and the connection to a greater spirit,  life goes on. Spending time in a Japanese garden has restorative qualities that gives peace and tranquility. Viewing  Japanese Healing Gardens from the interior as well as from the outside is another importance to the design itself. Public corporations, schools,  hospitals and healthcare facilities are seeing the positive results from this restorative approach to garden design. It has been noted the results of the healing qualities that a patient experiences when looking out the window to a healing garden or a memorial garden at the hospital. I have studied with several Masters that opened my eyes to the communicative and spiritual transformation that exists within this, especially if there is water and Koi within the design.  In residential hospices, the Japanese Healing Garden becomes a spiritual part of the care that is given to the patient. The beautiful addition of Koi swimming across the rippled waters only adds a universal connection that reveals yes, life still exists. When we don’t know the answers of what to do, or why something is happening or even why someone is in our life, I know I find comfort within the Japanese garden. Everything comes into balance and the healing begins.

The Koi Whisperer Sanctuary and Japanese Gardens is  honored to be designing several Zen Living Japanese Healing Gardens in 2014, both in residential and educational facilities. It is essential that the connection between the Koi from Japan and the history of the Japanese garden design stories are told. I am grateful for  the awareness that is being given on the holistic aspect and the difference it is making both in educational facilities and the healthcare industry. I look forward to this journey with you.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of another, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other. – Huston Smith

Love and Light…

 

copyright 2013 by  MaryEllen Malinowski, Zen Living by design | Infrared Light Int’l  zenlivingbydesign.com  M@infraredlight.com   Zen Living by design Magazine in Spring 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of the heling garden is not only to help heal but also that onhonor, in remberance of one that has passed.

Zen is experience. It is in the action that Zen becomes a way of life.

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