Not to mention the larger gardens of nunneries and other religious sites... I think too often westerners (if I may paint with broad sweeps and generalizations) perceive the quintessential Japanese garden as either a tiny tsuboniwa (courtyard garden, a small to medium sized squarish open space that is an architectural element of 99% of all traditional Japanese homes) or an austere dry raked bed of gravel with a few boulders here or there.
Dave
Or give it a few hundred years.
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Nah. You'll be surprised what as little as 3-4 years will do.
Jim Lewis - snipped-for-privacy@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Only where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.
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