The Center Room has a deep sense of peace and harmony.

When we first tilled the garden, I received an impression of a circular room and began raking out a big ring that would be the home for a hedge of plants.

(The full story may be found on How It Happened.)

The idea of filling it with Woolly Thyme came later. I thought I would we pulling weeds all of the time, but it has been very easy to maintain.

The stone in the center was discovered when working up a bed on the Summer Solstice of 2004.

The whole garden had been tilled the year before with a tractor, so we were really surprised to find it sitting a few inches under the ground! See Pohaku to read more about our discovery, what it meant to us, and why we named the stone Makua.

A center in a garden anchors the energy of the garden and naturally makes it a special sacred space. Over the years, weddings, meditations, and other ceremonies have been held in the Center Room, something we never imagined when we designed it.