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Japanese · Back yard

Post-and-beam house, Zen court

Behind a mid-century post-and-beam house, a dry Zen garden: raked gravel around mossy islands and boulders, red Japanese maples, a cloud-pruned pine, a stone lantern and a water basin, with a low bench on the dark stone terrace and low concrete bowls planted at either end of it.

YardRemake Studio

USDA Zone 6
Post-and-beam house, Zen court — the original photo
Post-and-beam house, Zen court — the finished design

Showing the finished design

How this design was made

The before is an AI-generated stand-in, not a customer’s yard. The after is our engine’s unedited Japanese design for zone 6, with the Low Concrete Bowl added by the studio’s own planter step. Every pin comes from our plant-identification pass, never placed by hand, and passes a second, independent check. The close-ups re-imagine what the main view doesn’t show, so a path, a step or a pot can differ.

The planting list

Named at the level the design was identified at; the species we stock link to their care pages.

Japanese maple
Acer palmatum

Planters in this design

From our planter library. Each one opens its page, where you can plant it up in the Planter Builder.

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