Feng Shui Garden Tips
- Add a wonderful resting bench beneath a shade tree and meditate there each day.
- Relocate spiky plants to the back of the garden such as yucca plants, cactus and roses. We are all about safety in Feng Shui. If someone can get caught on them or hurt in any way, they are not considered friendly. Move them away from ‘people paths.’
- Remove aggressive vines from the house. They will take over the chi of the building and can actually destroy it. Put them on a lattice where they can be moved a little away from the house.
- Create winding curves in the garden; always are more gracious than straight walkways.
- Be imaginative and make it wonderful. Create a labyrinth with plants, or mosaics and stones. A wonderful exercise for and practicing your mindfulness meditations.
- Clear up clutter areas. We need to think of our gardens as extensions of our homes. Stagnant chi in the yard affects us just as much as in our homes.
- If you don’t use the woodpile, give it to someone who will use it. This goes for the junk lumber pile as well. If it is useful, the chi is moving, if it is just there, the chi is stagnating.
- Disguise hoses, unfriendly garden tools, recycling and garbage bins and anything unpleasant to look at. (See solutions.com and frontgate.com for attractive hose covers, such as baskets to wind the coils in or faux stones to cover up unattractive objects in the garden.)
- Clear up bear ground areas and mulch around plants to conserve water.
- Completely remove dead tree stumps or make something artistic out of them if you can’t remove them.
- Thin out the branches rather than box trim hedges. The chi will move through them better and they will live longer.
- Remove or prune back plants or trees that are covering windows, i.e. right next to the window. Plants a few feet away are fine.
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