May Flowers for Feng Shui

2. You can overlay the Ba Gua over just the backyard — or the front yard, for that matter, or simply the space you are using for your garden. This is similar to how you would overlay the Ba Gua on a house or just a room. To overlay the Ba Gua on the backyard, the front of the Ba Gua should be in line with the back of the house so that the back left corner of the yard is the wealth area and back right is the relationship corner. Similarly, if you are just laying the Ba Gua over the garden space, the front entrance to the garden would be the front line of the Ba Gua.

You can also use a concept called “layering” to reinforce your Feng Shui remedies in places where you’ve activated chi using specific Feng Shui empowerment techniques. To do this, lay the Ba Gua over the whole plot of land to determine the specific trigrams, and then over the backyard or garden to do the same. You would empower the Ba Gua trigrams based on both layouts. (In most cases the back row of the Ba Gua would remain the same, but the front two rows may change.)

In addition to using plants and flowers to activate specific trigrams, you can also use them to fill in missing areas of your yard. Simply plant the flowers in the corner closest to the missing section to “connect” that section to the rest of the space.

Feng Shui Flowers and Colors

Now that we’ve determined the Ba Gua layout in our yard, it’s time to determine our goals for the garden, both aesthetically and in regard to the life changes we hope to make using Feng Shui. For instance, do we want the garden to provide shade? Food? Or just a place we can go to relax and look at beautiful flowers? If you dream of walks through the garden, create flowing footpaths that take you past the most beautiful flowers. If you hope to sit and read or journal, add benches that place you in the command position, facing but not directly in line with the entrance to the garden. Make sure they’re comfortable and offer support if you intend to spend long hours reading or writing.

From a Feng Shui perspective, think about what changes you hope to introduce into your life, and which trigrams of the Ba Gua correspond to these changes. A garden may be especially helpful to improve fertility and increase a woman’s chances of getting pregnant, or to attract love or create more opportunities for wealth. In these cases, you might plant white flowers, red roses, or deep purple and blue lilac bushes, respectively.