The Essential Guide to Creating a Chinese-Style Garden: Design a Landscape for the Soul in Your Own Backyard

Incorporate the four basic elements of a classic Chinese garden-water, natural stone, structure, and plants-into the design of your own backyard. Along with full-color photos of authentic gardens, you'll find everything you need to know about Chinese-style gardens, from their origin to their cultural and artistic conception. Bring harmony into your Western landscape with the winding paths and sheltered hollows of a Chinese garden.