“Patterns in Nature that Inspire Japanese Garden Design and the Connection Between Garden and Architecture”
Tim Gruner, Anderson Japanese Garden Curators

Japanese gardens and their architecture are the product of a fundamental connection with nature. Explore how they function, on a human scale, as pieces of a single living environment.

TIM GRUNER - Anderson Japanese Garden Curator
Driven by a lifelong love of nature to a career in horticulture, Tim graduated from the Kishwaukee College Horticulture Program 1987, followed by a one-year horticulture internship at Chicago Botanic Garden. Since 1989, Tim has worked and studied at Anderson Japanese Gardens under the direction of Mr. Hoichi Kurisu, f Kurisu International, where he is currently Garden Curator. Tim is a frequent contributor to Sukiya Living Magazine and has presented at national and regional conferences for the North American Japanese Garden Association, of which he is a member of the board of directors. In 2001 Tim completed the Kyoto University of Art and Design two-week intensive garden symposium in Kyoto, Japan. In 2016 he completed an intensive tea garden rock setting workshop at the International Japanese Garden Training Center at the Portland Japanese Garden. Tim studies Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony, to further understand aesthetics, Japanese gardens, the best of human relationships, and nature.