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By JOAN WOLFE A sense of peace, beauty, and tranquility will surround you at the Anderson Japanese Gardens, located in Rockford, Ill.; a 90- minute drive from The Territory. The twelve-acre gardens follow a 12th century Japanese style design with wonderful walking paths, pools, streams, lovely waterfalls, attractive pagodas, and decorative lanterns. There is also the "Garden of Reflection" which includes original bronze angel sculptures by Carl Milles, a Swedish sculptor.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine; or the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn." - Matsuo Basho The stereotype of a Japanese gardens may be a few rocks and raked sand, but nothing could be further from the truth. Subtle and complex, Japanese gardens encompass five main types that condense nature, yet suggest infinity within a small space, according to landscape architect Lacy Keil, owner of Environdesign.
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If you owned 250 bonsai trees, wouldn't you naturally fall in love with someone who also has 250 bonsai trees? That's exactly what happened to Dave and Barbara Bogan several years ago. As president of the Nashville (Tenn.) Bonsai Society, Barbara invited her now-husband Dave to speak--and the rest is history. The couple were married in the Japanese gardens at the Nashville Botanical Gardens. Merging two collections of the tiny, heavy potted trees is no easy task. Barbara's trees, from her Barbara's Bonsai business in Nashville, were moved to Dave's rural Warrick County property.
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OBITUARY: Landscape architect's love of city can be seen in work, son says. By Pamela Hale-Burns
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Bob and Carole Winter feel as if they visit Japan every time they step onto the patio and into the Japanese garden attached to their Potomac home. The water, stones and plants are enclosed by a wall and set against the larger landscape. The area, which is accompanied by a deck, features a 21/2-foot-deep pond, Pennsylvania rock and Japanese and American vegetation. Occasionally, the Winters observe a nearby fox, deer or hawk while relaxing in the setting, which looks especially lovely covered in snow.
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Merryspring Nature Center will hold a "Tea Talk" at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Ross Center. Lee Schneller will present "Japanese Gardens in the United States. Schneller is known in the midcoast for her expertise on gardens, especially for her use of native Maine plants to create gardens faithful to the Japanese style. Her talk and slide show will give an overview and history of Japanese inspired gardens in the United States from the early 20th century onward.
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WASHINGTON - David Silverman has 867 pinball machines and a $2 million dream. By day, Silverman is a landscaper who specializes in Japanese gardens, but in his spare hours, he is a full-time pinball fanatic. Over the past 30 years, he has amassed a collection of machines that dates to the 1920s. They are housed in a specially constructed building in Silverman's Silver Spring, Md., back yard where, on Saturdays, he often has people over to play the games for free.
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Master Gardener Lee Schneller will discuss the aesthetics of Japanese gardens at 1 p.m. today at a meeting of the Midcoast Maine Branch of the American Association of University Women in the Rockland Public Library Community Room. Schneller, who is fresh off an October visit to Japan, will look at the interrelated design elements and plant materials that characterize a Japanese garden. The owner of Lee Schneller Fine Gardens in South Thomaston since 1995, Schneller has designed and built more than 130 gardens, specializing in Japanese-inspired, naturalistic and continuously blooming gardens using New England plants. Before starting her business she worked for 10 years as a Japanese technical translator.
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REDLANDS - Redlands Police officers and community members dedicated and broke ground Saturday on the Redlands Sister Cities Association's Peace Garden Project. The garden was first dedicated in 1986 and will be redone and added to in stages, designer Rudy Lozano said. It represents and replicates Japanese gardens, Redlands Police Cpl. Jesse Marquez said.
