Category Archives: Garden Tours

Hoichi Kurisu Requests to See Nathan’s Japanese Style Garden

Hoichi Kurisu, a world renowned Japanese garden designer and builder and the leading, living Japanese garden architect in the U.S., has paid us a visit!

Several days ago, Nathan gave Mr. Kurisu a tour of his own private Japanese style garden which he calls The Lawrence Cascadian Sukashi Garden. Accompanying Kurisu were Keir, his head project manager; Chino also a project manager; and Ishi, one of Kurisu’s many highly skilled garden craftsman.

Hoichi Kurisu is the builder and or designer of several of the top Japanese gardens in America including the Portland Oregon Japanese Garden, the Morikami Japanese garden in Delray, FL, the Anderson Japanese Garden in Rockford, Ill, the Frederick Meijer Japanese Garden in Grand Rapids, MI, and countless other public and private gardens in the US and in Japan.To learn more about Hoichi Kurisu, just do a web search using his name or go to https://www.kurisu.com to learn more about this amazing artist and national treasure!

In the photo below from left to right: Keir, Nathan, Chino, Ishi and Hoichi Kurisu.

From left to right: Keir, Nathan, Chino, Ishi and Hoichi Kurisu.

Morikami Japanese Garden In Florida—A Tour & Critical Review

Enjoy this tour and critical review of one of America’s most renown and top tier Japanese gardens near Boca Raton, Florida. Designed and constructed by the world famous Japanese garden designer Hoichi Kurisu, Nathan Lawrence, a Certified Arborist and master aesthetic master pruner with decades of experience pruning in the sukashi style, examines the various aspects and facets of the Morikami Garden with an eye for the unique details that this Japanese garden offers.

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.