Borrowing from the gardening cultures of Japan, Korea, China and England, He likes to describe it as an Anglo-Sino-Canadian garden. Following a path in the Japanese stroll garden tradition you will start in a woodland shade garden under giant old-growth Douglas Firs. Here, as through the rest of the garden, you will find that - “Set among these natives are specimen rhododendrons and Japanese maples, each placed in natural niches like living sculpture. In between these are sited artworks in many styles, both serious and playful, forging adventurous links between the natural and the created environment.” Ann Lovejoy quotes in Naturalistic Gardening.
These artworks are joined by unique garden structures. Many of these utilize Pacific Northwest natural materials and salvaged items. For example you pass through a 12 metre tunnel woven with cedar strips to arrive at a Greco-Roman rotunda made with a recycled satellite dish as a roof placed upon walls made from beach logs.
This is an ever - evolving garden that has features that have been introduced for water conservation. These include a drought tolerant xeriscaped Mediterranean area and a wild flower meadow (which also features grasses). Near the oriental woodland garden with its bamboo lined paths he has developed a new microclimate through creating a bog garden by diverting the gray water from one of the pottery studios. One can look down into the blooms of plants such as the Japanese iris as you walk across the bog on a Japanese zigzag “devil's” bridge.
The heart of the gardens is an inner Meditation water garden, which incorporates many design elements from Zen tea gardens. Standing on the Japanese arched bridge going over the two ponds, surrounded by the cascading foliage of weeping ferns, maples, junipers and cypresses with a background of maples and soft-layered plantings in front of a Korean style wall you are transported to a different time and a different place.