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The stunningly beautiful Passage is where garden design ideas inspired by ancient Japanese Tea Gardens. The Passage garden ideas came from the practicing Buddhist owners, and the design was a collaborative effort from landscape contractor and architect, and different artists to create a spiritual retreat to accommodate everyday functions as well as a space in which to be nurtured and find rest and peace.

The Passage is a contemporary interpretation of an ancient garden design. The garden is on a wooded, 10-acre lot in New England, Massachusetts, on which an existing house stood for about 20 years. An addition was put on the main house, a private temple was turned into a guest house, and a connecting bridge was built between a new bedroom and the main entrance.

The idea behind “roji” (or “passageway”), an ancient tea garden, is that the "garden was designed not to be viewed from a single location, but as a series of experiences along a path leading to the tea ceremony." It can be appreciated from many locations – not just looking into the backyard from a kitchen window, as we do.

The viewing areas in The Passage include a parking court and entry garden with a curving fieldstone wall that emerges from the woods, a steam garden, a courtyard garden, perennial borders, a woodland path, and a meditation circle. A koi pond, a soaking tub, a ceremonial planter, water basins that collect rain water, an outdoor shower that doubles as a lantern, and a stone path all add to the ancient appeal of  The Passage. 

At the beginning of the path, at the property entrance, there is a circular parking lot that is enclosed in a curving fieldstone wall. It repeats the bowl shape of the nearby kettle hole.
Similarely, at the end of the path, there is Meditation Circle, "a small terrace overlooking the woods, where the third Tsukubai - the Woodland Bowl - rests." "Sitting on the rim of the vast kettle hole, one is consumed by nature, and moves effortlessly from the worldly to the spiritual."

Also at the entry, is the first of three Tsukubai - the Raincatcher - a cast concrete water feature which collects falling water from the roof. "Water overflows from the Raincatcher into a copper ring filled with washed stones."

Strong is the influence resulting from the gardens design of the 'Alhambra in Granada and of the' Alcazar in Seville, and equally strong is the allure of feelings related to perfumes, such as rosemary, rock rose, broom, pistachio, strawberry: these and other species, combined with water features, are the fundamental elements of this garden style. The right outlook, the combinations of vibrant colors and natural materials characterize the choice of a unique and unmistakable.

Maybe you want a garden with plants that is unique and different to the other. There is one type of plant that is unique and probably very few people used to park them, namely aloe vera plant. With the  garden with aloe vera ideas, your garden will become more beautiful and unique. Aloe vera can be applied in the garden courtyard and park in front of your house, like the example below.

Many people want to have a garden with an atmosphere that blends with nature, one of which is the idea of the expressive natural rock gardens have been started by nature. Natural rocky meter can be changed to create expressive green carpet. Stone, wood, and stumps are used as a focal point, instead of delete. Isolated stone acts as a expressive rock garden in miniature, serving both as containers and ornaments. The photos below will give you further ideas to explore when working with natural stone garden. Where is the best place available, however, a planned rock garden can be a great feature.

For those who live in the city, we should be satisfied with a little gardening space, but it does not become an obstacle to create a small tropical garden with gazebo. Plants and techniques used in limited-space gardening equally useful outside of town, of course, and terrace sit-out areas are often rewarded even in a large garden. Here are some examples of small tropical garden design with a beautiful gazebo, and may be a reference for you in making the garden.

To make the exotic tropical patio you can combined the two small palms either side of the steps are Phoenix canariensis or Canary island date palms.  Growing them in pots allows them to be brought close to the house during the coldest months of the year.  (There are some reasonably mature Phoenix canariensis planted in the ground and thriving in the local neighbourhood).   

Directly behind the right hand pot, next to the step are a group of money trees/jade plants (crassula ovata).  As we travel up the steps a Melianthus major .  Further along an olive tree (olea europaea).  In front of the olive tree Thalia Dealbata grows out of the formal pond.  Just behind the exotic patio garden is cyperus papyrus, seed grown annually, growing in a large terracotta pot.

The right hand corner contains an Arizona cypress (a pre existing plant) which complements the other blue green foliage of the drought tolerant exotics.

The screening to the rear is a phyllostachys nigra hedge (black  bamboo) .  This plant does receive some watering other than rain.  These exotic patio garden is also constructed so that it drains into the bamboo. All of the plant on this exotic patio garden is a tropically plants.