The Lan Su Chinese Garden is a tranquil oasis in downtown Portland. Long time guide Daniel Skach-Mills wrote The Beyond Within: The Downtown Dao of Lan Su Chinese Garden in 2017, but this is not a traditional guidebook. Instead, the author explores the Daoist principles, as he understands them expressed by different parts of the garden. “Our garden is more than a place of transformation—it is transformation happening, right before our eyes.”
Published in Garden Notes: Northwest Horticultural Society, February 5, 2018