Chinese Gardens: The Chinese consider gardens a serious art form through natural elements like flowers, trees, plants, rocks, and water and also artificial elements like paintings, poetry, and architecture. The Chinese garden design is to provide a spiritual utopia for one to connect with nature.

Garden Design
Garden design was an art in China. One of the most common ways to make a Chinese home more elegant was to develop one or more compounds into a garden with plants, rocks, and garden buildings. Gardens
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Lan Su Chinese Garden
Garden Address Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 Northwest Everett Street Portland, Oregon 97209 Mailing Address and Administrative Offices Lan Su Chinese Garden 220 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 1050 Portlan
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