A Japanese Touch to Native Garden Design November 6, 2010

Slideshow meets in the Cultural Exchange Center. Want to bring back the natives? Want to live in nature? Want to go beyond ad-hoc collections of individual plants? Want to create topographic, geologic, hydrologic, climatic, and vegetative garden scenery evoking your favorite natural landscapes? Want to harmonize architecture with its environs? The native garden & dwelling places the world calls Japanese Gardens offer composition principles, materials choices, construction techniques, and maintenance practices you can use in a variety of settings. Learn about these, as well as California's natural landscapes and their Japanese and CA garden analogs, in an introductory survey.