Authentic Japanese Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden TC_Bestseller The Silver Chair

The Silver Chair

has enchanted readers with the outrageous sleuthing career of its precocious leading lady

and an array of local characters in Maine whose lives intersected with the internationally revered artist living in an old Odd Fellows Hall on Vinalhaven Island

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

Authentic Japanese Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden TC_Bestseller The Silver ChairThis beautifully illustrated book provides an inspirational and practical introduction to the traditions of Japanese Zen gardens, using natural materials such as wood, bamboo, rocks and pebbles. Emphasizing the value of shape in trees and shrubs with the subtlety of color through the varied greens of foliage and moss, Authentic Japanese Gardens explains how western plants and materials can be used to achieve peaceful, contemplative gardens. There are