by Alfred E. Newman

Created on: July 05, 2009   Last Updated: July 10, 2009

Creating a garden according to the principles of feng shui is the the best way to increase the harmony of your land. The biggest factor in whether or not you have a harmonious home is the land it is sitting on. To improve sheng chi and avoid si chi you will want to place plants and shrubs, buildings for garden tools or add a flowing stream and fish pond water feature to your garden. When creating your garden keep in mind that the feng shui elements you use should reflect you personal attitudes towards life.

Your garden should be a quiet retreat for you and your partner and therefore must make you feel comfortable and at easy. The landscape around your home should be esthetically pleasing as well as modest, reserved and downplayed. Unlike the West the feng shui practitioners of the East believe in modesty, not boldness and dominance of the environment, but and intimate sense of fitting into the landscape of your home.

Gardens and patio areas designed and built using feng shui are more akin to a Japanese rock or a low maintenance English garden than the over designed formal gardens of western countries that are constructed with harsh corners, straight lines and sharp angels. Even if you live in a apartment or on an estate, if you are positioning a building or a potted plant situating them according to feng shui principles will create a harmonious environment that will create sheng chi.

Your garden is like another room in your house and you design it in the same manner in which you would feng shui a room. A good feng shui garden will take into account the five element theory. the principles of yin and yang and you will need to create a ba-gua map of your garden just like you would a room. Readings should be taken so that the influences of each of the directions can be taken into consideration when placing garden elements.

Wandering paths and wood, fire, metal, water and earth elements will ease the free flow of sheng chi through out your garden, avoid corners if possible and if not employ the same remedies you would use in any room to freshen a corner and move chi along, stopping the creation of si chi. Gardens designed using feng shui will incorporate a contrast of foliage and bright colored flowering plants. Always use vegetation and flowers that you will enjoy viewing while resting in your garden. Understanding and implementing the fundamentals of the different schools of feng shui in your garden will add another area to your home in which to rest and relax, while generating sheng chi chasing away si chi from your landscape.

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