Once you've created your garden, make sure you rake the gravel or sand regularly, say once a week, to maintain its appeal.

Perhaps the best thing about a Zen garden is how easy it is not only to make, but to remake from time to time. So if your first go at creating serenity doesn’t exactly follow your plans, never ...

Jackson, who shares instructions to build a Zen garden, advises keeping it simple. "Don't worry about being too formal and exact," he said. "Make it the way you want it." Rakes for Zen rock ...

Zen gardens are dry landscapes that date back centuries ... can enjoy the meditative motions of raking sand with a miniature rake and arranging and re-arranging stones in desktop kit gardens.

Consider creating DIY Zen garden kits. Use shallow containers filled with sand or gravel, including small bags of stones, a miniature rake, and instructions for mindfully arranging the elements.

Have you ever seen one of those desktop zen gardens? You know the small box with an even smaller rake to pull through the sand? It’s supposed to help you feel more calm but do you know how to ...

In both, however, it is necessary to rake the gravel or sand to maintain its appearance.Outdoor Zen gardens, according to Twinomurinzi, may require plants and materials that can withstand local ...

or someone rakes the gravel in a different pattern, or a bird settles in, and all the relationships change. It is just all about thought.” The thought-provoking nature of Zen gardens invites the ...

Don't worry. Just because you can't take care of plants doesn't mean you can't have a garden. Yes, that's right, thanks to Zen, you can have a rock garden. And you can even have it inside if you want.

DC gave me a Zen garden for my desk at work. It consists of a 6-by-6-inch tray, white sand, five small stones and two tiny rakes. The tines of one of the rakes are minusculely wider apart than the ...