Have you planted your garden yet? What garden? The container garden I taught you how to plant in a previous column. What -- you haven't even started it yet? I know, you're busy. You don't have time to water your plants and you absolutely hate weeding.
Don't worry. Just because you can't take care of plants doesn't mean you can't have a garden. Yes, that's right, thanks to Zen, you can have a rock garden. And you can even have it inside if you want.
Today, I'll teach you how to make a small Japanese "karesansui" rock garden. You can see a "dry" garden of this type at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. You'll find that with even just a small space, you'll have plenty of room for mountains, islands and water inside your garden. This is because much of the rock garden is left to the imagination. Brilliant, eh? It's kind of like pretending you're Monet.