Bromeliads and bamboo in the lobby at work

I started a new job on Halloween. These planters are on either side of the lobby and they remind me a little of a Japanese garden, with the bamboo and rocks. I've read that Japanese gardeners use rocks to represent water. And that formal gardens are very serene, peaceful places. The building lobby is a pleasant place to start and end the day.

[Rick Schies]

It is definitely a beautiful garden, and it does appear very serene, so they must be on to something.

[Carolyn White]

They're beautiful! :0)

[Shirley Chetwynd]

A very tranquil area

[Camille Bisson]

that is very beautiful and a lovely shot. i have read that japanese have tanks for plants only, no fish. now i am reading about - not in japan, but all over - how people are doing not hydro, but a combo of hydro and fish where the fish tank filters through the gardens, back into the tanks and each support the other. really interesting stuff. the kind of fish that you eat.