May Flowers for Feng Shui
Don’t discount the idea of planting fruit trees or even colorful, decorative and edible vegetables in your garden, which add life chi and also may help reduce your food bills. Redbor Kale and Bull’s Blood Beat have deep reddish-purple leaves that work equally well in the wealth corner and in a dinner salad!
Balance, Harmony and Curves of a Feng Shui Garden
While many conventional Western gardens are designed in rectangular shapes, with hard lines, not to mention fences that could be an eyesore, the best design for a Feng Shui garden — in order to minimize killing or sha chi — includes a lot of soft curves. If you must put a fence around your garden with a gate, a black or green fence is good Feng Shui. Either a wood or metal fence is acceptable depending on its placement; you can use either type of fence to help balance the elements in your garden. Consider growing decorative vines up the fence to add even more natural beauty to your garden.
Don’t discount the idea of planting fruit trees or even colorful, decorative and edible vegetables in your garden, which add life chi and also may help reduce your food bills. Redbor Kale and Bull’s Blood Beat have deep reddish-purple leaves that work equally well in the wealth corner and in a dinner salad!
Balance, Harmony and Curves of a Feng Shui Garden
While many conventional Western gardens are designed in rectangular shapes, with hard lines, not to mention fences that could be an eyesore, the best design for a Feng Shui garden — in order to minimize killing or sha chi — includes a lot of soft curves. If you must put a fence around your garden with a gate, a black or green fence is good Feng Shui. Either a wood or metal fence is acceptable depending on its placement; you can use either type of fence to help balance the elements in your garden. Consider growing decorative vines up the fence to add even more natural beauty to your garden.
Inside your garden, let plants grow and flowers bloom in meandering paths, with plenty of space in between for people to congregate and enjoy nature.
Create balance and harmony by using a variety of plants, flowers, trees and even vegetables of varying heights, shapes and sizes. Remember, balance does not necessarily mean symmetry, but rather something that is pleasing to the eye and does not overpower the senses with too much of one color, or too many tall plants, or overgrown large trees. Take time to plan and plant your garden, using your intuition to determine if a space is achieving the feeling you want — one of vibrancy, or calm, or a sense of playfulness or possibly even formality.
