Feng Shui In the Garden

Article by: Abby Straus

Spring is finally here, thanks be, and it's time to get outside , Introduction to Botany and enjoy the sun , Growing Asparagus and the greenery. Whether you live in a tiny apartment , Soil Erosion Control or on a sprawling estate, incorporating Feng Shui , Vegetable Container Gardening into your garden , Japanese Beetles - The Plain Truth About Traps... And A Tiny New Winged Hope! can enliven your experience, helping you bring a deeper level of joy and peace into your life.

Feng Shui (pronounced "fung shway"Â) is the practice of bringing our lives into harmonious relationship with our surroundings. A great way to get started is to create living spaces that reflect back to you the qualities you would like to have in your life. These spaces act as physical, living affirmations of who you want to be and how you want to live.

The garden , Commercial Ponds is a wonderful place , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard to do this, because it represents a deep, instinctive connection to the Earth , Landscape Wallpaper and all of Nature. , Small Garden Design - Creating Illusions Of More Space No matter how technological our lives have become, a part of us still yearns to be connected to the Source.

Those of you without a green , Vegetable Container Gardening thumb, don't panic! There are many kinds of gardens. , Landscape Wallpaper There are Zen gardens , Some Of The Most Common Landscape Design Features of stone , Exotic Flowers: Luxurious and Impressive for Your Home and Garden Decor and bamboo, , Abatement and Coping with Challenges in the Environment water gardens , Revolutionary New Pond Combines Both Preformed Pond with Watercourse (an aquarium counts), patios , Marsh Marigold with pots , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams of plants, , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 6) The Autopot window , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 15) Ozone boxes, vegetable gardens, , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning flower gardens. , Landscape Wallpaper .. the list goes on and on. The point is that there's a garden , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams for everyone, the possibilities confined only by the limits of your imagination.

Whatever kind of garden , Easy Pond Algae Control the Ecologically Safe Way you choose, here are some basic Feng Shui , Vegetable Container Gardening principles to get you started on the right track this year:

Number one, the Prime Directive: Live with what you love. Make a list of all the things you'd like to have in your garden"â€not just the things you know you can afford"â€everything! Now go back and look over the list and see what qualities these things represent. How do they speak to you? How will these things elevate your existence? Perhaps, in real life, you can't have the fabulous, eight-foot tall, hand carved statue of Kuan Yin you saw the other day, but there's surely a way to incorporate the energy , Garden Gazebo - A Stunning Addition to any Landscape of the statue. Maybe it's the large scale, or the smoothness of the stone , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams coupled with the Goddess energy. , Getting Started with Garden and Patio Design Now, how can you bring that into your own garden? Do you live in an apartment , Add Some Enchantment To Your Backyard With A Garden Gazebo and long for the ocean? Try gathering some sea stones, , Backpack Blowers sand , A Rose is a Rose? and shells, and arrange them around a fountain. If you have a sunny window , Chives - Allium Schoenoprasum nearby, you can buy a beach rose , Planting Trees and Shrubs (rosa rugosa) and put it in a beautiful pot , Vegetable Container Gardening to round out the scene.

In Feng Shui, , Garden Gazebo - A Stunning Addition to any Landscape we use the five elements to represent the different aspects of life. Wherever all five occur simultaneously, there is a sense of completion, unity and power. , Hibiscus - Tropical Beauty Try incorporating all the elements into your garden:

Element: Water
 Represents: Reflection, Introspection, Flow, Soul Purpose
 Use: Water  , Backpack Blowers itself, glass, , Hummingbird Migration  crystal, mirrors, dark colors, , Spring is Around the Corner - How is Your Garden?  asymmetrical shapes, northerly direction, the tortoise.

Element: Wood
 Represents:  Creativity, Strength, Growth, Health & Family
 Use: All plants  , Water Garden - Pond Pumps To Pump Up The Volume and flowers  , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 15) Ozone (including dried and silk), greens  , Say Your Feelings with Flowers - Flower Meaning and blues, , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard  items made of wood, , Small Garden Design - Creating Illusions Of More Space  columnar shapes, easterly direction, the dragon.

Element: Fire
 Represents: Inspiration, Joy, Emotion, Fame & Reputation, Abundance
 Use: A fireplace, reds and red tones, lighting, candles, images of animas, things made of animals (bones, feathers, etc.), triangle, pyramid, cone, southerly direction, the phoenix.

Element: Earth
 Represents: Center, Solidity, Receptivity, Nurturing
 Use: Soil, , Water Garden - Pond Pumps To Pump Up The Volume  brick, ceramics, tile, , Landscape Wallpaper  stucco, yellows and earthtones, square and rectangular shapes, the center,

Element: Metal
 Represents: Communication, Heaven, Helpful People & Travel
 Use: All metals, , Abatement and Coping with Challenges in the Environment  rock and stone, , Hibiscus - Tropical Beauty  natural  , Abatement and Coping with Challenges in the Environment crystals, white  , Landscaping - Using Native Plants Saves Water and pastels, arches, circles, ovals, westerly direction, the tiger.

As you can see, you have lots of choices and room , Japanese Beetles - The Plain Truth About Traps... And A Tiny New Winged Hope! for creativity. Again, choose what you find pleasing.

In Feng Shui, , Vegetable Container Gardening we understand that energy , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio flows most harmoniously around smooth and curving shapes. Wherever possible, avoid sharp corners on walls, , Green Thumb Gifts: Beyond Gardening Gloves flower , Hills and Holes: Not Part of Your Landscaping Design? beds, etc. Don't worry if you've just finished building , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard neatly squared-off beds , Growing Asparagus or walls. , Small Garden Design - Creating Illusions Of More Space You can cut the points off of the corners, or place , Theme Gardens round pots , Spring is Around the Corner - How is Your Garden? of flowers , Landscape Wallpaper where the points meet your most frequent path , Japanese Beetles - The Plain Truth About Traps... And A Tiny New Winged Hope! of movement. Soft, flowing greenery can be planted to mitigate pointiness as well.

When do you have the most time to enjoy your garden? Is it early morning or in the evening after work? If you have the most time after dark, why not install some low voltage lighting and make a magical night garden , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know where you can relax with candles and night-scented flowers? Do you enjoy traditional gardening: weeding, pruning, , Add Some Enchantment To Your Backyard With A Garden Gazebo deadheading flowers? If you do, go for it. If not, be sure to use plants , Some Of The Most Common Landscape Design Features that are low maintenance and choose perennials , Hillside Landscaping-Proper Watering over annuals. , Vegetable Container Gardening Perhaps you should consider ground covers instead of a big lawn. , Landscape Wallpaper The one big "NO"Â in the garden , Adding a Water Feature to Your Yard is guilt. So create something that's compatible with your personality. Your garden , Abatement and Coping with Challenges in the Environment can and should be a sanctuary, a place , Planting Trees and Shrubs to revitalize your body, your mind and your spirit.

One of the basic tenets of Feng Shui , Small Garden Design - Creating Illusions Of More Space is that everything is constantly changing. If you have a garden , Marsh Marigold that you see from inside , Chives - Allium Schoenoprasum your home, , Backpack Blowers think about planning it for winter , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams as well as summer , Planting Trees and Shrubs beauty. Many plants , Marsh Marigold are just as lovely without leaves as with them. Statuary and sculpture change , Landscaping - Using Native Plants Saves Water their look as the backdrop of the garden , Soil Erosion Control changes, and evergreens remind us that life still exists, even in deepest February. Another thing to remember is that you are constantly changing as well. What thrilled you in your garden , Landscape Wallpaper last year may not work at all for you this spring. , Getting Started with Garden and Patio Design Go ahead, move things around, trade plants , ing Trees and Shrubs with your friends, shake it up! You're growing, , Vegetable Container Gardening you're moving forward. And every year you have a fresh opportunity to see your beauty, your strength and your magnificence reflected back to you in your garden. , Vegetable Container ing

Author: Abby Straus
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Bio: Abby Straus is a teacher, author and consultant dedicated to helping people enhance the quality and function of their lives. She has an extensive background in consciousness studies and meditation and is a Feng Shui , Hillside Landscaping-Proper Watering and energy , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know work practitioner. She lives in Pleasantville, NY.

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