Zen Gallery & Meditation Room

Opening October 11

If you’ve been at the Gardens in the last several weeks, you may have heard artisans at work in the soon-to-be Peggy M. Hitchcock Zen Gallery and Meditation Room. Located just to the west of the Zen Garden, it will open to the public in the fall and showcase the unique aesthetic sensibility of meditation and Japanese arts and culture, deeply rooted in nature, spirituality, and seasonal cycles. 

Housed in a currently unoccupied building in the Grapefruit Grove, the Zen Gallery and Meditation Room is being transformed into a contemplative and interconnected space. It will feature a 100-year-old historic Japanese teapot along with its Jizaikagi (bamboo and chain hanger), a water feature, authentic bamboo fencing, seating crafted from a rare and ancient desert ironwood specimen dating back more than 1,000 years, and rotating art from the estate of Japanese botanical artist Manabu Saito.