American Garden Design Inspired by the Japanese Way of Tea

Drawing from her decades-long study of the Japanese Tea Tradition where great–even legendary–gardens are small by necessity, Bettina Mueller turned her backyard in the small Hudson Valley village of Tivoli, New York into a private world of beauty and tranquility.

A Tea Garden in Tivoli is a guide to garden design and flower arranging woven around the story of Bettina’s unique garden. The book won the Silver Independent Publishers Award for Best Garden Book and the garden won the Best International Garden Design Award from Gardenista.

Garden talks and events

Besides holding tea ceremony events in the tea house, the Tivoli garden has been on the Garden Conservancy Open Garden Days. Bettina has given talks at the Philadelphia Garden and Flower show and local garden clubs.