Japanese Style Garden. From Idea to Implementation

Sekitei, immersed in greenery — a place where harmony and tranquility live. How to create such a space for yourself? Elena Astashkina, a landscape architect and creator of Japanese-style gardens since 2000, a graduate of the Landscape Design Department at the Sogetsu School (MARCHI), tells us.
A Japanese-style garden does not begin with stones or plants, not with a lantern and not even with a drawing. It begins with an idea and an image that can only be felt. After all, the most important things are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
This book is, on one hand, full of practical advice and techniques that will assist you on the philosophical journey of creating a Japanese-style garden. On the other hand, it constantly brings us back to something forgotten or even blocked by society — sensory knowledge, intuition, freedom of creativity, and wealth that is accessible to few today — slowness and mindfulness. A Japanese garden is a meditation. Immersed in it, we return to ourselves.