The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is ...

[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...

This type of aggregate is fine enough to hold raked patterns quite well. If your Zen garden is going to be in an enclosed courtyard that will be exposed to minimal wind disturbance, you could ...