Author Archives: Nathan Lawrence

Poetic Vignettes of My Japanese Garden

This video is a montage of my personal Japanese garden with no commentary, just natural sounds and music showing the garden awakening in early morning light, it smiling throughout the day, then its being whipped about by a surprise lightening and thunder storm, then a pastoral, peaceful calm returning to the garden as it goes to sleep with lanterns burning and crickets chirping. Please enjoy this poetic view of my garden.

A Tour of the Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, Canada

The Dr. Sun Yet-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada is the first garden of its kind that was constructed outside of Asia. This exquisite world class garden is similar stylistically to many Japanese gardens, but has its own unique characteristics as you will discover in this video.

Interview of Hoichi Kurisu—Renowned Japanese Garden Designer

Japanese garden architect Hoichi Kurisu has designed and overseen the construction of some of the most notable and top Japanese gardens in the U.S. and elsewhere including the world famous Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, the Anderson Garden in Illinois, the Frederik Meijer Japanese Garden in Michigan and many others too numerous to mention. In Nathan’s interview of Mr. Kurisu, he discusses what makes Japanese gardens unique and why people are so attracted to them the world over.