Left on its own, with no TLC or community interest, the pond in the Japanese Garden in Fabyan Forest Preserve would soon be ...

Above: Boulders as sculpture at a Japanese dry garden in Ithaca, NY. Photograph by Don Freeman, from Use rocks as a design ...

However, the idea that most immediately caught the team's attention was that of Japanese dry gardens, made up of sand and gravel. "Initially, that direction was called 'the walled garden,' which ...