This simple, elegant garden was designed in response to the owner’s desire for a low-maintenance Japanese style garden in a small outdoor space. Carducci & Associates used diagonal paving to create a greater sense of depth, while granite discs accentuate existing trees. The design also includes meditation benches, a bridge and mossy stone lantern, along with a dry stream bed, stones and rocks, plantings of iris and azaleas and a specimen Japanese maple. A central glass room provides a sunny place for tea in the garden.