Building A Zen Garden

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Building a zen garden.

If you are making a desktop zen garden simply gather and cut enough wood to make a small container. One thing to consider when determining the size is that the gardens should be easily viewed by you or other people. Line the zen garden with edging stones such as rectangular rocks to create an enclosure. If you are making a large garden consider using 2 x 4 pieces of lumber old railroad ties or any other type of wood.

But nowadays it can be in any size from a backyard to a mini zen garden on your desk. For most homeowners building a masonry wall for a meditative space in the backyard is either undesirable or unaffordable. The traditional zen garden was a walled in space. The seclusion thus attained was conducive to meditation.

Substitute a lattice fence to achieve inexpensive privacy. If you create your garden near coniferous trees you ll be picking up leaves all fall. Alternatively place a two by four along each edge and hammer the boards to seat them in the ground. Sand or gravel generally form the matrix of a zen garden and to keep it looking sharp you need the matrix to be contained.