Podcasts about Japanese garden

Summer is underway, and that means events are in full bloom across our beloved Michigan. Here on Behind the Mitten, we'll visit with friends from all over to hear about new festivals, great beaches, new hotels and more on this edition of Behind the Mitten. Jesse Wiederhold is a verfiable Keweenaw Peninsula enthusiast, and his excitement about this part of the state is infectious. We are lucky that Jesse works for Visit Keweenaw, and gets to actually just be excited for his job. He also gets to come up with crazy new ideas to celebrate all the cool things about the Key. He's the man behind Pasty Fest, which returns August 16. He also reveals a brand new festival occuring the weekend of June 20, the Juhannas Summer Solstice Celebration.The Mill at Zehnder Park, a 13,700-square-foot boutique hotel, with four individual large suites is set  to open for bookings in early 2026. A former flour mill, the property was purchased by the Zehnder family in 2022, and renovations promptly began. The new hotel is set to open in 2026, and we go  behind the scenes on this exciting project.Now Ludington gets named as a "best beach" it seems like every year, moving into the national category in the last few years, and we won't lie, it's incredible. In fact, one of our favorite summer events are the beach bonfires held here the third Thursday of every month, with bands, food trucks, and so much fun. Brandy Miller joins us to share all the cool things happening this summer season right on the shores of Lake Michigan.Finally, we catch up with our friends from Frederik Miejer Gardens and Sculpture Park. Summer is when the gardens really shine, sparkle, and shout, with all the outdoor spaces open to visitors and the ampitheatre open for incredible concerts. I'm a personal fan of the children's garden, no matter your age, for awesome interactive exhibits, and the Japanese Garden for quiet gorgeous solitude. Seeing a show here is divine, but get your tickets early, lots of shows sell out. 

The Olympic Peninsula beckons with its captivating blend of lavender-scented fields, historic coastal towns, and magical gardens just waiting to be discovered. Join us, The ROAMies, as we unpack our adventures through this Pacific Northwest gem, starting in Sequim—North America's lavender capital—where purple fields and blueberry farms inspired a special tea blend bearing the town's name.Sequim proved the perfect launch point for our peninsula explorations. The quaint town buzzes with lavender culture, featuring shops like Sunshine Herb and Lavender Farm where everything from culinary seasonings to home goods carries the signature scent. Though we missed the Olympic Game Farm's drive-through safari experience, we'll definitely return for close encounters with bison, bears, and llamas.Our wanderings took us to the stunning Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, where a rugged trail stretches 11 miles round-trip to a distant lighthouse. We ventured to Port Townsend, a Victorian seaport brimming with maritime charm, art galleries, and the starting point of the ambitious Olympic Discovery Trail—a 130-mile pathway being built along a former railroad corridor connecting communities across the peninsula.The most unexpected adventure came during our cross-border journey to Victoria, British Columbia. A forgotten passport meant one of us explored alone while the other uncovered Port Angeles's hidden gems. Victoria's crown jewel, Butchart Gardens, revealed its century-old splendor through the Sunken Garden (transformed from an abandoned quarry), the star-shaped pond originally designed for ornamental ducks, and meticulously maintained Japanese, Italian, and Rose gardens.• Sequim serves as the perfect home base with its relaxing atmosphere and status as North America's lavender capital• Lavender and blueberry fields inspired a special tea blend named "Sequim"• Sunshine Herb and Lavender Farm offers everything lavender from seasonings to home goods• The Olympic Game Farm provides drive-through wildlife viewing opportunities for families• Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge features an 11-mile round trip beach walk to a lighthouse• Port Townsend charms with Victorian architecture, art galleries, and maritime history• The Olympic Discovery Trail spans from Port Townsend to La Push along a former railroad corridor: https://olympicdiscoverytrail.org/• Victoria's Butchart Gardens showcases stunning themed gardens including the Sunken Garden, Japanese Garden, and Star Pond• Travel mishaps can lead to unexpected adventures, as when one forgot their passport for CanadaWhether you're chasing Twilight filming locations, seeking tranquil lavender rows, or craving coastal hikes, the Olympic Peninsula grounds you in Pacific Northwest beauty while feeding your wanderlust. Ready to experience this perfect blend of floral, coastal, and forest mystery for yourself? Subscribe now to join our next adventure to Belize!Thanks for your ongoing support!http://paypal.me/TheROAMiesAlexa and RoryThe ROAMiesPlease subscribe, rate and share our podcast! Follow us at:http://www.TheROAMies.comThe ROAMies: Facebook and Instagram YouTube and X.

A fast and busy month produced plenty of excitement. Jason and Bri start with a shot for a belated Dyngus Day celebration and pour Zywiec Porter. From there they talk the start of the Summer Hiking Challenge, a visit to the Japanese Garden, and Easter Brunch and prices. Then they finish up talking about the CollaBEERation VI event. Where did you enjoy Easter brunch this year?Visit our website at BuffaloBrewsPodcast.comEmail: buffalobrewsPR@gmail.comFollow us on social media.Instagram: @BuffaloBrewsPodcast Facebook: @BuffaloBrewsPodcastX/Twitter: @BuffaloBrewsPod

Learn more about our guests and see pictures of Amache at: najga.org/amacheIn this special episode of the NAJGA podcast, hosts Jan Liverance and Marisa Rodriguez are joined by two remarkable guests—Dr. Bonnie Clark and Greg Kitajima—for a moving conversation about gardens, resilience, and the enduring legacy of Amache.Dr. Bonnie Clark is professor and curator for archaeology in the University of Denver's Anthropology Department. Since 2005, her primary research focus has been the Amache Community Archeology Project, a collaborative endeavor committed to preserving, researching, and interpreting the tangible remains of Amache, the World War II Japanese American incarceration camp in Colorado. She is author of Finding Solace in the Soil, coeditor of Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains, and coauthor of Denver: An Archaeological History.Greg Kitajima is an independent Certified Aesthetic Pruner based in Santa Barbara, and currently serves on the board of the Amache Alliance. He spent 14 years pruning and maintaining the Japanese Garden at Ganna Walska Lotusland, apprenticing for eight of those years under Frank Fujii—the garden's original designer and caretaker for 45 years. In addition to his training at Lotusland, Greg has also studied Japanese gardens and pine pruning in Japan, and has trained with Dennis Makishima on the art of Aesthetic Pruning.Together, they paint a vivid picture of Amache's landscape, past and present—sharing stories of discovery, reflection, and the power of place. From archaeological fieldwork to family narratives and garden traditions, this episode invites listeners to consider why the legacy of Amache still matters, and how we continue to carry these stories forward.

On this episode of the STL Bucket List Show, host Luke Farrell goes through his top 25 things to add to your Spring Bucket List. With great weather on the horizon, this is the perfect short listen to get fun ideas on what to do in St. Louis this Spring. 1. See the Cherry Blossoms at the Missouri Botanical GardenSpring transforms the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden into a stunning display of cherry blossoms. Wander through peaceful walkways, enjoy the serene koi ponds, and take in the breathtaking colors. Learn more.2. Visit the St. Louis Zoo and See the Spring Baby AnimalsSpring is baby season at the St. Louis Zoo! Spot adorable newborns like lion cubs, penguin chicks, and giraffe calves while enjoying the mild weather. Plus, admission is free! Plan your visit.3. Ride the St. Louis Wheel at Union StationGet a bird's-eye view of downtown St. Louis from this 200-foot-high Ferris wheel. Go at sunset for an unforgettable skyline experience. Book tickets.4. Enjoy Patio Season at 4 Hands Brewing CompanySoak up the sun with a cold City Wide or seasonal brew at 4 Hands Brewing Company's patio. A perfect spot for happy hour or a weekend hangout. Check out their beer list.5. Hike at Castlewood State ParkTake in stunning river views and lush greenery while hiking the scenic trails at Castlewood. It's a local favorite for both hikers and mountain bikers. Explore more.Listen to the episode to hear the full list or visit our website!Support the show

Check out our final podcast of 2024, an interview with renowned Garden Designer, Hoichi Kurisu and his daughter, Michiko Kurisu. Hoichi Kurisu is President and Founder of Kurisu LLC. He has been designing and building gardens for nearly 50 years. His daughter, Michiko, is a NAJGA Board Member and Project Coordinator and Public Relations at Kurisu LLC. The podcast is hosted by Steven Pitsenbarger, Garden Supervisor at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. You can learn more about Mr. Kurisu and his company, Kurisu International, at kurisu.com

Check out our latest podcast on DIY gardens. Our host, Phil Pochoda, a private garden owner from New England, interview Nikolai Loveakis and Jeanne Kay Guelke about their gardens. You can listen here and see pictures of Nikolai and Jeanne's gardens here: najga.org/diygardens

NAJGA Board Member & Director of Japan Institute at Portland Japanese Garden Aki Nakanishi, was recently in London. Listen to his powerful interview with Director Richard Deverell of Kew Gardens. Kew Gardens is the largest botanical institution in the world. This unscripted interview that took place during Aki's informal visit to Director Deverell's office at Kew, is an impactful statement of action, inspiring us to think differently about our own gardens as a vehicle for positive social change through public engagement and communication.

Journey through the quiet transformation of a Japanese garden as rain turns to snow and back again, winding past ancient temple grounds where macaques soak in hot springs and monks tend sacred bells. This mindful meditation guides you through mist-wreathed paths to a peaceful guesthouse, where the sounds of nature and wisdom of centuries ease you into perfect rest. Your support is the cornerstone that allows me to continue crafting tranquil stories and meditations for you. For just $4.99 a month, you'll unlock an oasis of over 450 ad-free Listen To Sleep episodes, including 8 subscriber-only full length sleepy audiobook classics like Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland. Ready for an even more serene, uninterrupted listening experience? To subscribe, visit⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://listentosleep.com/support⁠⁠ To join my email group and get a bunch of goodies, go to ⁠⁠https://listentosleep.com⁠⁠ Sleep well, friends.

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips and cracks. Artist Naoko Fukumaru wasn’t initially interested in kintsugi — as a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts and other institutions, she was focused on rendering imperfections invisible. But after the collapse of her marriage following her move to Canada, she began to appreciate the message of resilience and reinvention that are fundamental to the practice. Fukumaru’s first solo kintsugi exhibition in the U.S. is currently on display at the Portland Japanese Garden and runs through Jan. 27. She joins us to talk more about the exhibit and the message she hopes visitors take from it.

My mother-in-law died in early October, two days before my 60th birthday. We ended up spending almost three weeks in the UK, preparing for her funeral and grieving with family. And now, just after we were beginning to emerge from the worst of the grief cycle, our family and friends are plunged right back into deep grief after the election.I feel numb. My husband and I went to the Japanese Garden yesterday. It was a beautiful day in Portland. We were not alone in seeking solace in the beautiful fall colors. I found myself staring out over our skyline and feeling single tears leaking out of my eyes.I have not had a huge cry over the state of the world. Just single leaking tears.I feel devastated for the country, the world, and the planet.This is my lament.

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What in the Foo Dog is going on? Things get serene on this week's episode of The Growing Season when The McFarland's focus on Japanese Gardens. Jack, Lynne and Matt compare and contrast Japanese Gardens with Modern Gardens. You'd be surprised how much they have in common. What are the elements that make up a Japanese Garden? The minyen

Fluent Fiction - Hungarian: Reuniting on Margaret Island: Finding Lost Bonds Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/reuniting-on-margaret-island-finding-lost-bonds Story Transcript:Hu: Margit-sziget nyári varázsa Budapest közepén terült el.En: Margaret Island's summer magic stretched out in the middle of Budapest.Hu: A napfény szűrődött át a fák lombján, a folyó lassan folydogált körülötte.En: Sunlight filtered through the trees' leaves, and the river flowed slowly around it.Hu: Bálint ott állt a sziget közepén, a zöld réten.En: Bálint stood in the center of the island, on the green meadow.Hu: Családi találkozó volt a szigeten.En: It was a family gathering on the island.Hu: Azon a napon mindenki eljött, hogy újra találkozzanak, nevetgéljenek és emlékezzenek a régi időkre.En: That day, everyone came to meet again, laugh, and reminisce about old times.Hu: Bálint csendes volt.En: Bálint was quiet.Hu: Nem igazán érezte jól magát a zajos társaságban.En: He didn't really feel comfortable in the noisy crowd.Hu: Az ő világában a gondolatok mélyebbek voltak, és a hangos zaj túlságosan elfedte őket.En: In his world, thoughts were deeper, and the loud noise overshadowed them too much.Hu: Éppen emiatt Bálint távolinak érezte magát az unokatestvéreitől is, különösen Emesétől.En: Because of this, Bálint felt distant from his cousins, especially Emese.Hu: Emese bohém volt, mindig a figyelem középpontjában.En: Emese was bohemian, always the center of attention.Hu: Jól érezte magát a tömegben, mesélt, nevetett más unokatestvérekkel.En: She felt at ease in the crowd, telling stories, laughing with other cousins.Hu: Bálint nézte őt, emlékezve a régi napokra, amikor még ők ketten voltak a legjobb barátok.En: Bálint watched her, recalling the old days when they were best friends.Hu: Vajon mi történt, amitől olyan messzire kerültek egymástól?En: What had happened to make them drift so far apart?Hu: Bálint úgy döntött, megkeresi a lehetőséget, hogy beszéljen Emesével.En: Bálint decided to find a chance to talk to Emese.Hu: Lassan sétált a Japánkert irányába, ahol csendesebb volt a hangulat.En: He walked slowly towards the Japanese Garden, where it was quieter.Hu: Az ősi kőhíd alatt csobogott a kis patak.En: Under the ancient stone bridge, a small creek babbled.Hu: Az évek távolsága nem tűnhetett áthidalhatatlannak ilyen környezetben.En: The years' distance didn't seem insurmountable in such an environment.Hu: Emese is sétált arra, elgondolkodva.En: Emese was walking there too, lost in thought.Hu: Bálint összeszedte bátorságát. Odaért mellé, köszöntötte: "Szia, Emese! Ráérsz egy kicsit?"En: Bálint gathered his courage and approached her, greeted her: "Hi, Emese! Got a moment?"Hu: Emese bólintott, megállt, és Bálint szemébe nézett.En: Emese nodded, stopped, and looked into Bálint's eyes.Hu: A pillanat komoly volt, mint amikor régi barátok próbálják visszanyerni a kapcsolatot.En: The moment was serious, like when old friends try to regain their connection.Hu: Bálint lassan kérdezte: "Gondolkodtál róla, miért távolodtunk el egymástól?"En: Bálint asked slowly, "Have you thought about why we grew apart?"Hu: Emese sóhajtott, a napfény félkörökben csillogott a vízen.En: Emese sighed, sunlight glittered in semicircles on the water.Hu: "Én is gondolkodtam rajta," mondta csendesen.En: "I have thought about it," she said quietly.Hu: "Annyira elfoglaltak lettünk, én is benne vagyok mások életében, de ez nem mentség."En: "We've become so busy, I'm involved in other people's lives too, but that's no excuse."Hu: Az őszinte szavak elindították a beszélgetést.En: The sincere words sparked the conversation.Hu: Mindketten elmondták, hogyan változtak az évek alatt.En: They both shared how they had changed over the years.Hu: Hogyan a felnőtté válás hozott távolságot köztük.En: How growing up had brought distance between them.Hu: De a megbeszélés során felfedezték, hogy még mindig megértik egymást.En: But through the conversation, they discovered they still understood each other.Hu: A beszélgetés végére megegyeztek: "Tartsuk a kapcsolatot! Ne hagyjuk, hogy újra eltávolodjunk."En: By the end of the conversation, they agreed: "Let's keep in touch! Let's not let distance grow again."Hu: Bálint hirtelen könnyebbnek érezte magát, mint azelőtt.En: Bálint suddenly felt lighter than before.Hu: Tudta, hogy nyitottnak kell lennie, akár a családdal való kapcsolattartásban is.En: He realized he had to be open, even in maintaining family connections.Hu: A nap végén a családi összejövetel zsivaja lassan elült.En: At the end of the day, the noise of the family gathering gradually subsided.Hu: De Bálint és Emese között újra virágzott a régi kötődés, most már elkötelezve, hogy megőrizzék azt.En: But between Bálint and Emese, the old bond flourished again, now committed to preserving it.Hu: Margit-sziget a barátságuk új otthona lett, az emberek szívében lévő kis békesziget.En: Margaret Island became the new home of their friendship, a small island of peace in people's hearts.Hu: És mindketten tudták, a legnehezebb távolság csak egy gondolat távolsága maradt köztük.En: And both knew, the hardest distance was only a thought away between them. 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Yesterday was a very simple, very good day. One of my favorite kinds of day.We were with close friends. The kind of friends you love and respect immensely and also who you can be entirely just you with. The best kind.Our plan was so simple it almost wasn't a plan at all. To wander around a small town and … well, that was it. It was one of those days when nothing really happened and yet, a lot happened.Yesterday we explored a small town with friends with the top down in our Jeep and it reminded me of why I love a car whose top can come down.Yesterday I was amazed by a cactus garden. Which says a lot because I'm not a cactus person. And I'm still not a cactus person but experiencing this cactus garden was so weirdly unexpected that it has lodged itself in the front of my memory. Like if you visited the Grand Canyon and of course it was wondrous but just as you were leaving you saw a 10' tall chicken standing by the side of the road and now, instead of the Grand Canyon, all you can think about is that chicken.Yesterday my friends and I decided to try out a Mexican restaurant we'd never been to before and ended up eating one of the most perfect Mexican meals any of us can remember. Can a margarita made with mangos and habeñero infused tequila give you new purpose in life on a summer afternoon? It just might.Yesterday I sat for a few minutes in a Japanese Garden and realized we could solve all the world's problems if we could just get everyone on the planet to sit for a few minutes in a Japanese Garden.Yesterday I wandered through an antique shop and learned what a dough trough and bread keeper were used for in 1700's France. I also came across an odd looking set of wooden trays whose purpose I just couldn't wrangle out. Then I learned they were molds for making balloons. Which was awesome, but also made me realize I've come all this way in life without knowing how balloons get made. Right at that moment I felt my world get just a little bigger, and that made me smile.Yesterday we played a game of Spades using a waterproof deck of cards. Before this week I didn't know there was such a thing as waterproof playing cards. It was fun, and also we won the game, so win win.Strange how a day filled with simple, seemingly inconsequential things, ended up feeling so full, so perfect, and so very meaningful. Or perhaps not so strange when you remember that all of life is just a moment—this moment … and this one … and this one.So take heart. Life can feel overwhelming but moments are rarely overwhelming, and in the end life is just this moment … and this one … and this one.Big plans or no plans I hope you can find some moments to enjoy today, and perhaps some friends to share them with. It's a good thing. And it's the best way I know how to build yourself a beautiful life.

ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – ‘Friday Nights' with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out “The Japanese Garden” in Lake Balboa AND highlighting today's ‘Hidden Gem,' Aja Harkem, and “LA Elderly” which is a source for connection, information, and inspiration for family caregivers and those who care for the elderly…PLUS - Mark Rahner reviews Season 4 of the hit Prime Video series “The Boys” in ‘The Rahner Report' - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – ‘Friday Nights' with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out “The Japanese Garden” in Lake Balboa AND highlighting today's ‘Hidden Gem,' Aja Harkem, and “LA Elderly” which is a source for connection, information, and inspiration for family caregivers and those who care for the elderly - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz wants to bomb endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico.One of Florida's great hidden gem cultural and tourist attractions is Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach. As beautiful as the gardens are today, the history of Japanese immigration to Florida and the garden's founding are equally interesting. Curator of education at Morikami Wendy Lo joins us to discuss.

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A few years ago, when traveling anywhere was out of the question because of you-know-what, many homeowners thought of turning their own yards into destinations worthy of traveling to--and the staycation was born. My backyard was a blank slate full of weeds. I wanted a place outside that was worth traveling to, a yard that reminded me of places I'd been to and loved--Clear Lake, the working-class resort of my early childhood with its woods and hammock; Olympic National Forest; Glacier National Park; the Japanese Garden in San Francisco and Spokane; and finally, Children's Fairyland in Oakland and anything Alice in Wonderland. I'm too scrawny to dig a hole deeper than three inches, so I hired a landscaper to plant the trees I bought. In my usual getting-carried-away habit, I eventually ended up, in a medium sized backyard, with 2 redbud trees, 3 magnolias, 7 dogwoods, and 13 Japanese maples, all different. After they were planted, I told the trees, "You're on your own." I didn't want to have to actually work in my yard. I'm all for no-maintenance gardening here. The trees had to take care of themselves. It was a transactional relationship between me and my trees. I give them dirt; they give me beauty, shade, and supplemental oxygen. I wasn't going to fuss over them, water them, hug them--or prune them. I'm not a gardener. I'm a stay-at-home tourist.

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: Lost in Tranquility: A Journey Through a Mysterious Japanese Garden Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/lost-in-tranquility-a-journey-through-a-mysterious-japanese-garden Story Transcript:Ja: タイムスクエアで交差したトラムと人々の喧騒から逃れ、ユキとハルトは東京の静寂と神秘に満ちた日本庭園に足を伸ばしました。En: Yuki and Haruto escaped the hustle and bustle of the tram and people crossing at Times Square, and extended their legs to a tranquil and mysterious Japanese garden in Tokyo.Ja: 日差しが緑豊かな木々を照らし、蝶たちが空蝉の音を追いかけて飛んでいました。En: The sunlight illuminated the lush green trees, and butterflies flew chasing the sound of cicadas.Ja: 彼らはこの庭園の静寂と穏やかさに魅了され、深く庭園の中へと歩み込みました。En: Enchanted by the tranquility and gentle atmosphere of the garden, they walked deeper into the garden.Ja: しかし、進むにつれ庭園は迷路のように複雑に絡み合い、彼らはいつの間にか庭園の深い部分で迷子になっていました。En: However, as they progressed, the garden intertwined complexly like a maze, and they found themselves lost in the deep part of the garden before they knew it.Ja: 心がパニックになったユキが恐ろしげな銀色の彫像を見つけました。En: Yuki, panicked, found a terrifying silver statue.Ja: 彫像の迫真の表情に、ユキはこのおどろおどろしい彫像が本当に生物ではないかと疑問を持ちました。En: Doubting whether this eerie statue was really a living being due to its lifelike expression.Ja: 恐怖にかられたユキはハルトに彼女の心配を打ち明けましたが、ハルトは彫像がただの石であることを保証しました。En: Terrified, Yuki confided her worries to Haruto, who assured her that the statue was just a piece of stone.Ja: ハルトはユキを安心させながらも、自分自身も庭園の出口を見つけることができずに困り果てていました。En: While trying to reassure Yuki, Haruto himself was at a loss for finding the garden's exit.Ja: 日が沈み、月明りが庭園を照らす中、彼らは互いの恐怖を抱きつつも、助けを求めるため庭園をさまよい続けました。En: As the sun set and moonlight illuminated the garden, they continued to wander the garden seeking help while holding onto each other's fears.Ja: 唯一の希望は、彫像が示す方向に進むことでした。En: Their only hope was to follow the direction the statue indicated.Ja: とうとうハルトの目に、遠くに見えるランタンの灯りが捉えられました。En: Finally, Haruto caught sight of a lantern light in the distance.Ja: それは庭園の出口、救いの光でした。En: It was the exit of the garden, a light of salvation.Ja: 息を切らして灯りの方へ駆け寄り、二人はやっと庭園からの脱出に成功しました。En: Gasping for breath, they ran towards the light and finally succeeded in escaping from the garden.Ja: 長い夜が明け、彼らは日本庭園の入り口で深呼吸しました。En: As the long night passed, they took a deep breath at the entrance of the Japanese garden.Ja: 絵画のような美しい日本庭園を背に、二人は笑顔を交わしました。En: With the beautiful Japanese garden as their backdrop, the two exchanged smiles.Ja: ユキは、迷っても何度でも立ち上がる勇気があれば、怖くないと学び、ハルトは、どんな困難も一緒に乗り越えられるという信頼を見つけました。En: Yuki learned that as long as she had the courage to keep getting up no matter how many times she got lost, she wouldn't be afraid, and Haruto found the trust that they could overcome any difficulty together.Ja: 二人は結束を強め、東京の喧騒に戻ったのでした。En: Strengthening their bond, they returned to the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. Vocabulary Words:escape: 逃れるhustle and bustle: 喧騒tram: トラムpeople: 人々crossing: 交差するTimes Square: タイムスクエアtranquil: 静かなmysterious: 神秘的Japanese garden: 日本庭園Tokyo: 東京sunlight: 日差しlush green trees: 緑豊かな木々butterflies: 蝶たちcicadas: 空蝉enchanted: 魅了されたtranquility: 静寂gentle atmosphere: 穏やかな雰囲気walked deeper: 深く歩み込んだintertwined complexly: 複雑に絡み合ったmaze: 迷路lost: 迷子になったpanicked: パニックになったterrifying: 恐ろしいsilver statue: 銀色の彫像doubting: 疑問を持つeerie: おどろおどろしいliving being: 生物lifelike expression: 迫真の表現confided: 打ち明けたworries: 心配

Throughout April, support the Laurén Chalmers Beach Pantry by donating non-perishable food items to their college food drive. Donations are accepted at the College of Education, College of Health & Human Services and College of the Arts buildings. To recognize Earth Day, Cal State Long Beach has held an annual celebration called Green Generation Showcase for over ten years. On April 18 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Japanese Garden, environmental presentations will be given by local sustainable organizations, students, eco-friendly clubs and more. The event is free but an RSVP is recommended. April is Asian, Pacific Islander & Desi Heritage Month which CSULB celebrates by hosting events to spread community awareness. Today, April 15, is a Snack & Craft event in the CPaCE Courtyard from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This week is Transgender Week of Joy at the Beach, which will be celebrated with a haircutting event called Haircuts and Buttons. Hosted this Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the FO3 Courtyard, attendees can receive gender-affirming haircuts while enjoying music and making buttons. There are limited spots for this event and attendees are required to RSVP on the Events & Orgs app. Samuel Chacko, Managing Editor of the Daily Forty-Niner, joined Beach Weekly for this episode to discuss the multi-million dollar federal grant received by the Isabel Patterson Child Development Center. Last Monday morning, a partial solar eclipse called the Great North American Eclipse drew hundreds of people to the Central Quad where the Department of Physics and Astronomy handed out eclipse glasses. From our location on campus, only 49% of the sun's area was covered by the moon during this eclipse. A new FAFSA form was released this year in an effort to simplify the process and make it easier for students to fill out, but technical difficulties and hours-long waits for assistance have slowed down the procedure. California Assembly Bill 1887 has extended the FAFSA deadline from April 2 to May 2 after students and families have been experiencing extreme difficulties with the online form. On March 28, Beach Building Services broke ground on the new affordable dorm building called La Playa Hall near the existing Hillside dorms. The building will be 4,200 square feet, with 424 beds. The project will cost $115 million with $53 million being covered by the “Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program." Construction will begin in June and is expected to be completed by the summer of 2026. Arizona's Supreme Court has decided to uphold an abortion law from the 1860s that will outlaw most abortions in the state except in cases where the pregnant person's life is at risk. Half a million Arizona residents have already signed a petition that would put an abortion rights measure on this year's ballot. If passed, this measure would enshrine abortion rights as a permanent fixture within the state's constitution. A quick rise in temperature across Orenburg, Russia has caused snow and ice to melt substantially. Water pressure from this melt has caused a dam in the Ural River to burst which led to flooding across the region. According to Russia's RIA state news agency, 120,000 residents of the city and surrounding areas have had to evacuate as over 1,000 homes have been flooded. Host: Lei MadrigalGuest: Samuel ChackoEditor: Julia GoldmanProducers: El Nicklin, Aidan SwanepoelLike, comment, and follow us on your favorite platform for more content! Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-49er-podcasts/id1488484518?uo=4 Google Podcastshttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kMzEwMjEwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4HJaqJep02kHeIQy8op1n1 ⁠Overcasthttps://overcast.fm/itunes1488484518/daily-49er-podcasts

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Throughout March, support Beach Pantry by donating toiletries and non-perishable food items to the Laurén Chalmers '83 food drive. Donations are accepted at numerous locations on campus as well as the pantry office in Room 116 of the University Student Union. Hosted by CAPS on Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Spoon Check is a community support group for students with chronic illness or pain. The group will meet this Tuesday, March 26 in Room 204 of the USU. This Tuesday, March 26 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the USU Room 303 is a Financial Empowerment event. In the workshop, students will learn to manage finances and become financially independent. This Wednesday, March 27 from noon to 1 p.m. is Zen Yoga at the Japanese Garden. The event is free for students, $10 for garden members or CSULB staff and $15 for non-members. The 23rd annual Latina Connection Conference is this Thursday, March 28 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the USU Ballrooms. Participants will come together to acknowledge Latina professionals and their accomplishments through networking and socializing. The Long Beach State men's basketball team made their way to the NCAA tournament after defeating UC Davis in their Big West Championship game on Saturday, March 16. Last Thursday, March 21 in Salt Lake City, UT was the Beach's first time playing in the NCAA tournament in 12 years and their tenth time overall. In the first round of the tournament, the Beach lost to the University of Arizona Wildcats 85-65. ASI Elections voting for the 2024-2025 student government executive board was open from March 18 to March 20. On the 21st, voting results were revealed at the ASI Elections Reveal Party. The 2024-2025 ASI president was announced as Nikki Majidi with Matt Melendrez as vice president and Andre Achacon as the vice president of finance. Last Thursday, Russia launched 31 missiles into Kyiv, Ukraine overnight in its largest missile attack after a 44-day-long pause on attacks to the capital. The attack injured at least 17 people and damaged residential buildings and schools. The following night, on Friday, Russia launched another overnight attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure system. As of March 22, these attacks killed five people and have left over one million people without power. As of Sunday night, at least 137 are confirmed dead and hundreds more are injured after a concert hall, Crocus City Hall, in Moscow was attacked by several gunmen on Friday, March 22. A Russian state news agency, RIA Novosti, has reported that either a grenade or incendiary bomb was the source of the fire. According to CNN, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. This attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia in over a decade. 42-year-old Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, announced that she has cancer in a video released by Kensington Palace. She is currently in the early stages of chemotherapy. The palace announced that the princess is unlikely to return to public duties until March 31 at the earliest. Host: Lei MadrigalEditor: Julia GoldmanProducers: El Nicklin, Aidan SwanepoelLike, comment, and follow us on your favorite platform for more content! Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-49er-podcasts/id1488484518?uo=4 Google Podcastshttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kMzEwMjEwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4HJaqJep02kHeIQy8op1n1 ⁠Overcasthttps://overcast.fm/itunes1488484518/daily-49er-podcasts

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Take a breath of fresh air in this tranquil Japanese garden. De-stress as you listen to the relaxing raindrops and the water running sounds. Rain falling sounds with rushing water are great for helping you fall asleep, relax, or study, as the natural sound can cover up unwanted background distractions. Let your stress flow away like the water under the bridge in this serene garden! Here are some great products to help you sleep! Relaxing White Noise receives a small commission (at no additional cost to you) on purchases made through affiliate links. Thanks for supporting the podcast! ⁠⁠⁠Baloo Living Weighted Blankets⁠⁠⁠ (Use code 'relaxingwhitenoise10' for 10% off) At Relaxing White Noise, our goal is to help you sleep well. This episode is eight hours long with no advertisements in the middle, so you can use it as a sleeping sound throughout the night. Listening to our white noise sounds via the podcast gives you the freedom to lock your phone at night, keeping your bedroom dark as you fall asleep. It also allows you to switch between apps while studying or working with no interruption in the ambient sound. ⁠⁠⁠Check out the 10-Hour version on YouTube⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Contact Us for Partnership Inquiries⁠⁠⁠ Relaxing White Noise is the number one destination on YouTube for white noise and nature sounds to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. With more than a billion views across YouTube and other platforms, we are excited to now share our popular ambient tracks on the Relaxing White Noise podcast. People use white noise for sleeping, focus, sound masking or relaxation. We couldn't be happier to help folks live better lives. This podcast has the sound for you whether you use white noise for studying, to soothe a colicky baby, to fall asleep or for simply enjoying a peaceful moment. No need to buy a white noise machine when you can listen to these sounds for free. Cheers to living your best life! DISCLAIMER: Remember that loud sounds can potentially damage your hearing. When playing one of our ambiences, if you cannot have a conversation over the sound without raising your voice, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Please do not place speakers right next to a baby's ears. If you have difficulty hearing or hear ringing in your ears, please immediately discontinue listening to the white noise sounds and consult an audiologist or your physician. The sounds provided by Relaxing White Noise are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. If you have significant difficulty sleeping on a regular basis, experience fitful/restless sleep, or feel tired during the day, please consult your physician. ⁠⁠⁠Relaxing White Noise Privacy Policy⁠⁠⁠ © Relaxing White Noise LLC, 2023. All rights reserved. Any reproduction or republication of all or part of this text/visual/audio is prohibited.

We took a day trip to the Fort Worth Stockyards. Here, we got our true authentic cowboy experience! We saw Texas Longhorns paraded through the streets, “the Fort Worth Herd," by real cowboys and looked at some authentic cowboy hats. If you have time, stay for a rodeo!Visit the Fort Worth StockyardsThe Fort Worth Stockyards are one of the city's top attractions. Step back in time and explore this iconic district, which is a National Historic District and home to the world's only twice-daily longhorn cattle drive. While there, check out the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and enjoy a night of live music and delicious Texas cuisine. Over at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.Explore the Cultural District The Cultural District is home to some of Fort Worth's best museums, galleries, and performing arts venues. Spend an afternoon exploring the Kimbell Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Then, catch a show at Bass Performance Hall or the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Fort Worth Opera. Other A+ Venues Include:Billy Bob's Texas continues its decades-long run of delighting visitors by hosting some of the best performers and artists in the land. Legendary Texas musician Charlie Robison, Nashville Star Season 4 winner Chris Young and red dirt band Reckless Kelly are just a few of the acts coming to the World's Largest Honky Tonk. Don't forget to go early for the bull riding.Enjoy a Day at the Zoo.The Fort Worth Zoo is one of the top-rated zoos in the country and features over 7,000 animals from around the world. Spend the day exploring the habitats, watching the animal shows, and enjoying the rides and attractions. Explore the Water & Botanic Gardens.The Fort Worth Water Gardens are a must-see for any visitor. This beautiful park features three distinct pools, including a large upper pool, a recirculating stream, and a lower pool. Take a walk around the gardens and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. Step into a blooming paradise at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens this spring! With over 2,500 species of plants and flowers bursting with color and fragrance, you'll feel like you're in a fairy tale. Take a stroll through the peaceful Japanese Garden or explore the vibrant Rose Garden.Taste Delicious Food in Fort Worth! The city is home to some of the best restaurants in Texas, serving a variety of cuisines. Sample some local favorites like Tex-Mex, barbecue, and steak. Or, try some of the city's unique fusion dishes, such as tequila-lime shrimp. No matter what you're looking for in a vacation, Fort Worth has something for everyone. From the unique cowboy culture to the delicious food, there's something for everyone in this vibrant city. So, come and explore all that Fort Worth has to offer. Some favorite food spots include Fred's Texas Cafe, & the Swiss Pastry Shop.On a side note, even the chains taste better in Texas. Try Torchy's Tacos - a must-taco fast food spot that tastes better in Texas!Seasonal things to do:Wear your house costume or colors and attend the 5th Annual Hogwarts Ball Crawl on August 19. This ball includes themed drinks at local bars, wands, and more.Party with the top taco chefs in DFW at the Second Annual Tacos and Tequila Festival on May 20. This festival includes live performances by Flo Rida and Ja Rulesalsa, queso competitions, a Chihuahua Beauty Pageant, and Lucha Libre wrestling!

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It's not every day that we have a new music venue open up. Especially one like SoundsTruck Northwest, a brand new mobile stage, complete with concerts, begins its inaugural season on Sunday, June 18 at Cathedral Park. Other offerings in their Summer Series include concerts at the Japanese Garden, Mt. Tabor and Lewis and Clark College. More details here. There are many other concerts already scheduled for the summer. With me today is Amelia Lukas who is also a flutist and is involved in curating the Summer Series as well as working comms for them. So let's welcome her and a big Portland welcome to our newest and most unique venue…SoundsTruck NW.

Artist Musquiqui Chihying brushes up the history of displaying sick and strong Asian bodies, from the Formosa Hamlet or human zoo at the Japan-British Exhibition in 1910, to COVID-19, both connected to their own contemporary exhibition in London's Tabula Rasa Gallery. Musquiqui Chihying's multimedia installation, ‘Too Loud a Dust', delves into two events from 1910: the construction of t he Formosa Hamlet by the Japanese Empire at the Japanese-British Exhibition in London, and the publication of ‘Diseases of China' by the British missionary James Laidlaw Maxwell. With soil ‘stolen' from the Japanese Garden, which remains in White City today, and dust from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, he considers how indigenous Korean and Ainu Japanese bodies were represented then and now, and how transparent glass used to separate - and - other viewers and subjects. The artist connects the contemporary and the historic, sharing how archive colonial postcards recalled the Dragonball cards he collected in his home in Taiwan, his pan-Asian influences including the Japanese proto-feminist poet, Masano Akiko, and why his research during the COVID pandemic, revealed continued racism and prejudices against Asian people, and contemporary ‘neocolonialism' between China and Africa. Cleaning a museum may be a necessary task, but the dust in display cabinets also carries valuable information, challenging concepts of ‘purity', and how anthropology and natural history museums ‘function'. Musquiqui Chihying: Too Loud A Dust runs at the Tabula Rasa Gallery in London until 29 June 2023. WITH: Musquiqui Chihying, contemporary visual artist based in Taipei and Berlin. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation, and contemporary social culture in the Global South. ART: ‘Too Loud a Dust, Musquiqui Chihying (2023)'. IMAGE: Installation View. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Welcome to our latest podcast episode, where we take you on a journey to a peaceful and heavenly Japanese garden, filled with the soothing sounds of nature and calming zen music. As you close your eyes and imagine yourself in this serene garden, you are greeted by the gentle trickle of water flowing from a nearby stream. The sound of the water is both soothing and refreshing, washing away your worries and calming your mind. You take in the fresh scent of the surrounding plants and flowers, feeling a deep sense of relaxation wash over you. In the distance, you can hear the soft rustle of leaves, adding to the tranquil atmosphere. As you walk along the winding path, you come across a small pond, surrounded by lush greenery and blooming flowers. The reflection of the sunlight dancing on the water creates a mesmerizing effect, as you listen to this 1 hour episode of gentle music playing in the background. The combination of these calming sounds allows you to slip into a state of deep relaxation and meditation, where you can let go of stress and anxiety, and focus on the present moment. The garden provides a sanctuary of peace and tranquility, offering a much-needed escape from the chaos of daily life. In this episode, we enjoy a combination of water sounds, nature sounds, and relaxing music to fall sleep faster, meditate, relax, manage stress/anxiety, focus on work or study, and find a sense of inner peace. Nature sounds and relaxing music have been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, lower blood pressure, improve sleep quality, help with insomnia, encourage better meditation and enhance focus and productivity. By immersing yourself in the sounds of nature, you can create a sense of calm and inner peace, helping you to recharge and rejuvenate. So, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and join us on this journey to a serene Japanese garden, where the soothing sounds of nature and zen music will transport you to a state of deep relaxation and tranquility. Use this soothing music as relaxing music to sleep, relax and promote healing meditation and zen. Achieve a state of zen or zen meditation by listening to this relaxing piano music and relax as if you are listening to soft music in a spa. Our relaxing music is enhanced with piano music and can be used as peaceful music, zen music, relax music or study music when you study. Our study music and work music act as concentration music, increasing focus during study sessions. Whether you enjoy yoga, need work music or study music to concentrate, are looking for spa music or massage music for your home or spa. During stressful times, our calming music even acts as stress relief music when played as soft music in the background. Listen to this zen music to romanticize your daily life whenever you read, rest, clean, organize or shower. It will add an extra dose of serenity to your daily life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's no secret Houston is extremely vast and really spread out. Living in the suburbs and possibly going on a date with someone in Galveston just makes it feel like a long distance relationship. Join the team this week as they talk about why dating in our city is so complicated and hear them share their tips on how to combat the single life. It is hard to date in Houston! But we got some date ideas for you: The Aurora Picture Show. Houston Botanic Garden. The Japanese Garden. Write About Now at Avant Garden. Interested in being the new host of City Cast Houston? Click here to apply! Looking for more Houston news? Then sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Houston  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram For more date ideas! Don't have social media? Then leave us a voicemail or text us at +1 713-489-6972 with your own Houston love story! Have feedback or a show idea? Let us know!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Enjoy a gentle waterfall and cleaning noises in beautiful Zen Garden. Use the sound of the waterfall to sleep, relax or study. Block out the stress and find peace of mind. Shishi Odoshi sounds as well!

Japanese Garden Stream - 10 Hours for Sleep, Meditation, & Relaxation

In June this year, UCL launched the UCL Walking Tour, a free guided walking tour aimed at inviting members of the public onto campus to learn more about UCL as a university and research institution and embrace its place at the heart of the Bloomsbury community. This month, host Cerys alongside Ariana Razavi, Molly Rasbash and Chanju Mwanza, delve deeper into three of the tours stops, the Wilkins Building, the Petrie Museum and the Student Centre and discuss the role that these places on campus have on the people who use them every day – students and staff. While these buildings form key parts of UCL's history, they are just a small part of the tour, only by taking the full tour can visitors learn about the noble laureates and the famous alumni that have studied or researched at UCL, the mysterious secret tunnels that run under the Cruciform building and the Japanese Garden which stands as a symbol of UCL's diverse community and international links. To book onto the free tour: https://bit.ly/UCLWalkingTour

A 25-minute pomodoro background track followed by 5 minutes of silence. For longer play times, open myNoise.net or google myNoise Japanese Garden and follow the top links.

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It's another of those (many) Bluey episodes with an emotional punch that regularly floors you (and us). Along the way, we discuss language barriers, long lost loves, international dubs, time scales, Japanese Garden theory, sleepy pee-faces, game-show music and oh yeah – Camping. Did we invent an anti-dote to the Rolled Up Newspaper? Is this the best flash-forward in Bluey? Who's cutting onions?

In this episode I am welcomed to Iford by the owner William Cartwright-Hignett who has recently taken over the family estate with his wife Marianne. I set off for the Japanese Garden where I meet head gardener Troy - but quickly finds myself in deep water! Watch more of our videos, behind-the-scenes and Live Q&A's by becoming a Patron. https://patreon.com/americanviscountess - The production of American Viscountess is made possible by our Patrons - thank you! Please consider becoming a Patron at https://patreon.com/americanviscountess See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events Compost Awareness Week   1742 Birth of Jean Senebier, a Swiss pastor and botanist. Where would we be without Senebier? We'd still be breathing, but we'd lack the knowledge that carbon dioxide is consumed by plants and, in turn, that plants produce oxygen as part of the process of photosynthesis. In a nutshell, Senebier's work is crucial because he had learned the function of leaves: capturing carbon for food. Before Senebier, the purpose of leaves and what they did for plants and people was unknown. It was Jean Senebier who said, Observation and experiment are two sisters who help each other.   1754 Birth of Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist. Remembered mainly for his Pensées ("Pon-see") or (Thoughts), which were published posthumously, he once wrote, All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.   1856 Birth of Sigmund Freud (books about this person), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud once offered this humorous insight: Common sense is a rare flower and does not grow in everyone's garden.   Freud offered up a few dispassionate observations regarding the natural world.  He once wrote,  Beauty has no obvious use, nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.   And he also wrote, Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.   Online there are many photos of Freud and his family in the garden of their home in London. The Freuds left their home in Austria to escape the Nazis with the help of Princess Marie Bonaparte (books about this person), known as Princess George of Greece and Denmark. In 1938, there was a photo of Sigmund with his daughter Anna and Martha in the garden of Marie Bonaparte's house in Paris after arriving on the Orient Express from Vienna. Anna looks happy, Martha looks at a flower, and Sigmund has a little snooze in his garden bed. The Freud home in London was much larger and nicer, and there was a large backyard with a garden.  The property still boasts Freud's rose garden and is now the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, London NW3, England. In 2008, the French botanist and biologist Francis Hallé wrote, Everyone knows that going to the garden does not solve the problems of everyday life, yet it relativizes them and makes them more bearable.  Sigmund Freud had this late regret: 'I lost my time; the only important thing in life is gardening.'   1925 On this day, at the age of 29, the great twentieth-century reformer of Japanese gardens, Mirei Shigemori (books about this person), changed his name from Kazuo ("Kah-zoh") to Mirei (“me-RAY”).  The name change was a tribute to the 19th-century French painter of pastoral landscapes and daily life, Jean Francois Millet (books about this person), who once said, It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.   In 1932, Mirei founded the Kyoto Garden Society. Mirei practiced the art of tea - Chado ("Cha-doe") and the art of flower arranging - Ikebana ("ick-aye-bah-na").  Mirei once advised, People who try to do research on the garden have to very seriously study the way of tea.   Mirei wrote eighty-one books, including the Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden in 26-volumes, released in 1938. Mother Nature played an important role in shaping Mirei's life when the Muroto Typhoon destroyed much of Kyoto in 1934. Many sacred temples, shrines, and gardens were wiped out in the life-altering storm. In response, Mirei took action.  He used his own money and became one of the first designers to survey every garden in Japan - creating records for restoration if they were ever damaged or destroyed. The tour provided a valuable service to his country and was also a means for Mirei to learn garden design - with a particular focus on incorporating rocks and stone. As a garden designer, Mirei was entirely self-taught. Throughout his fifty-year career, Mirei designed over two hundred gardens, including the checkerboard North Garden/Moss Garden at Tofukuji ("Tofu-kah-gee") Temple, Kyoto (1939), the dry landscape at Zuiho-in ("zwee-ho een" (1961), and the garden at the oldest shrine in Kyoto City, the Matsuo Taisha ("maht-sue-oh Ty-sha"(1975). The shrine is dedicated to the gods of water in western Kyoto and was an important place for sake-brewing families to worship over the centuries. In 2020, the second edition of landscape architect Christian Tschumi's book, Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden, was released.  In it, Christian breaks down the profound influences and meanings behind Mirei's most iconic gardens. Christian once wrote, Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Layered Garden by David Culp This book came out in 2012, and the subtitle is Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage. Well, I'm a huge David Culp fan, and I feel like I'm telling you about this book just in time for summer because this book can help you set the stage for how you want your garden to look all year long. And since the summer lays entirely before us, this book is just in time for you. If you're planning a new garden or a garden redesign, you could do a lot worse than having David Culp be your guide. Laura Springer Ogden wrote a review that's right on the cover of the book, And it says, Garden-making in its finest form is a celebration of life and love - and David and this book epitomize this. I couldn't agree more. And by the way, you'll probably recognize the photographer's name for David's book as well -  it's Rob Cardillo. Rob always does such a fantastic job photographing gardens, so this book's photos are top-notch. Now David kicks things off in this book with a quote from Francis Bacon, it's from Of Gardens (1625) - and it's one of my favorite garden quotes: There ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.   Of course, this sets the stage for what David is trying to teach us: how to have a garden that looks good all year long. Now I thought I would share this quick little sweet story that David shares at the beginning of his book. It gives all of us some great ideas - especially if you have young gardeners in your life. David wrote One fall, when I was about nine years old, my grandmother Thorpe gave me a bag of bulbs and said, "you go out and plant them." I felt more than a little trepidation. I had never planted anything without her supervision. But she reassured me. "You can do it. You won't go wrong." Her generosity could have been ruinous to her flower border. But I got the bulbs planted with no mishaps. The next spring, when they bloomed, I almost burst with pride. When she told all her friends, "David did that."  And from that moment, I knew I was a gardener.  And after all these years, it remains the core of how I define myself.   I love that story for a couple of different reasons. Number one, it really does tee up what David is talking about here in The Layered Garden because as a gardener, if you dismiss specific categories of plants out of hand, like the flowers that you get with spring bulbs, then you'll likely miss one of the layers that can help make your garden beautiful all through the year. Now the other reason I like this story is for practical purposes. I hear all the time from new gardeners who are so anxious about planting bulbs, And now I'm going to say, "Hey, if David Culp - as a nine-year-old - can do it, you can too. And then last but not least, I hope this plants a tiny seed with all of us that if we are interacting with kids in the garden, we definitely need to introduce them to planting spring-flowering bulbs because the result in the spring is just so impressive and unique. It also instills that sense of pride that you can get when your garden work goes to plan, and you experience that first flush of color. It's so wonderful. Throughout David's book, he reinforces this concept of the layered garden, but I will give you just a little snippet of how he introduces it here. He goes into much more detail and offers many more tips - wonderful little nuggets and tiny ideas - for making this look work for you. Here's how he introduces the concept in his book. Garden layers are made up of a variety of plants- some with complimentary or contrasting colors, others with interesting shapes or textures. Layers are more than just perennials or annuals or bulbs or ground covers. They're more than just the ground layer of plants. That's the sole focus of many gardens. Beautiful combinations are certainly possible, even in the tiniest scale. Think of dwarf Solomon's Seal underplanted with moss - that makes a precious six-inch-high picture. But to get the most interest from any garden, all the layers need to be considered from the ground level to the middle level of shrubs and small trees up to the canopy trees. Growing plants on vertical surfaces, walls, fences, trellises, arbors, and other supports even climbing up trees, when we can be sure that they will do no harm, adds to the picture by bringing flowers and foliage to eye level and above.   So there you go. An introduction to what David is talking about when he says The Layered Garden. You might be intuitively doing some layering already in your garden as you look for more ways to garden - looking for different plants - or finding and curating other ideas that you can put in your garden. But I think what David adds is his mastery because he knows how to make all of this work in a very cohesive way that's pleasing to the eye. David's book talks about how to do a layered garden and design it - which is probably the key for most of us because we often don't think about that. If we layer the garden, it can just happen organically. But then, sometimes, we can end up with a little bit of a confused look. Next, David talks about maintaining the layered garden, which is very important. Now there are two other aspects of this book that I want to share with you. So the first chapter talks about the layered garden, and it walks you all through that. But The second chapter introduces you to his garden at Brandywine Cottage. This is important because you get a garden tour here, and David shows you how he's put this layered garden technique to work right on his property. By the way, this is not David's first at-bat gardening; he's designed many gardens. So, all of his work is coming together, culminating at Brandywine. And then the last chapter, I think, is one of the most important chapters of the book. Here David shares his signature plants that he advises we consider incorporating into our gardens throughout the seasons. So, this is a great list. This is a list of plants from a garden designer - a garden lover - and someone who works in gardens every day. So right there, that's an invaluable part of this book. This book is 312 pages of layered gardening, the beauty of the garden at Brandywine, and then some of David's most treasured garden design secrets and favorite plants. You can get a copy of The Layered Garden by David Culp and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $18.   Botanic Spark 1682 On this day, Louis XIV (books about this person) of France moved his court to the Palace of Versailles. Originally, Versailles was built as a country house. Nine miles from Paris, Versailles was ideally situated near neighboring forests for hunting. Today Versailles is known for its opulence - the Hall of Mirrors, stunning art, and lush gardens. The massive gardens at Versailles are the most famous in the world. The garden is home to over 1,000 statues, and in the Facebook group for the show, I shared a stunning photo of the garden sculptures at Versailles surrounded by sandbags for protection during WWII. In 2006, Ian Thompson wrote a fantastic book called, The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles. Ian believes that Louis XIV may also have been history's most passionate gardener. Louis, the absolute monarch, was known as the “Sun King,”  specifically designed the central axis to be east-west to track the sun's path across the garden. Louis worked closely for forty years with the low-born gardener André Le Nôtre to devise the original design and geometrical layout. Temperament-wise, André and Louis could not have been more different. Louis was driven and merciless. André was funny, thoughtful, insightful, and easy-going. In 1979, Versailles, including the garden, was declared a World Heritage Site. And in 2014, Alain Baraton wrote Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden. As the gardener-in-chief, Alain lives on the grounds at Versailles. Alain has worked in the gardens, orchards, and fields for four decades. This memoir reveals Alain's connection to the grandest garden in the world. And in case you're wondering, Alain believes fall is the best time to visit. Alain oversaw the recovery from the worst natural disaster ever to hit Versailles. On Christmas night through the 26th of December in 1999, a monster winter storm with winds of up to 105 mph struck the grounds of Versaille. Alain watched in horror as century trees let go of the earth in response. In a little over an hour, the storm felled 10,000 trees at Versailles, including two tulip trees planted by Marie-Antoinette in 1783 in Trianon and a Corsican pine planted for Napoleon in 1810. Alain said, It was like the apocalypse. In one hour, 200 years of trees were destroyed.   But, miraculously, all of the statues survived unharmed. Although, there was one account that I read of a tree falling on one of the great statues. And as it hit the ground, the branches parted as if to spare that statue. It gave me chills just reading that. It was quite the story.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

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The sounds and songs of the Japanese Garden are so soothing.

The three O.G. musketeers are finally back together! This week, your hosts Chris Alley, Cameron Lockey, and Jason Yanchuleff explore three games well suited for three players.Featured Games:Seikatsu  (00:20:27)Haggis (00:42:27)Three Kingdoms Redux (01:03:08)Hidden Gems Geek List:https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/289922/hidden-gems-podcast-game-ratingsFollow us online:Email: hiddengemsboardgamepodcast@gmail.comWeb: https://hiddengems.gamesPatreon: https://patreon.com/hiddengemspodcastInstagram: @hiddengems.gamesFacebook: @hiddengemsboardgamepodcastTwitter: @hiddengemsboardYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR8wU2vjV2RJ7C6iRuq2WcABGG Guild #: 3874Credits:Seikatsu Theme, “Japanese Garden", Sight of Wonders, Royalty Free LicenseHaggis Theme, “An Phis Fhiliuch”, Public Domain, Performed/Recorded  by Cameron LockeyThree Kingdoms Redux Theme, "The Unexplored", Philip Ayers, Royalty Free LicenseLogo Design, Katelyn Nieto, @itskatelynnietoHidden Gems: A Board Game Podcast was produced and edited by Chris Alley, Cameron Lockey, and Jason Yanchuleff in Raleigh, NC. The Hidden Gems: A Board Game Podcast theme is licensed under a royalty free license contract.