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What should I do to Feng Shui my garden?

Ah, another of those brilliant bogus Mc Feng Shui concepts! I wish there was such thing as Feng Shui in the garden: I could charge a lot of money to design it, and it would please my accountant at the end of the year.

 

The truth is a Feng Shui garden is a newfangled idea like the internal Sha Chi we just spoke about. Sha Chi is a real concept – some landforms can affect your house – that was simplified, reduced and applied inside the house, where it was never meant to be applied. This is the same thing with the Feng Shui garden.

Some landscape brings a good, benevolent Chi; but unless you are Donald Trump or Lord Sugar, and can design a space around your house that is 200 hectares wide, the plants that you will put around the house are not going to affect the Chi of your premises in a significant way.

The few exceptions that I will put to this rule are as follow:

• The Northwest sector in close proximity of the house should not contain Fire Elements, like very red flowers and a garden lamp. It could still affect the Qian sector, and “put fire at heaven’s gate”.

• If you use some garden lights, they should not be permanently on at night; if they are make sure this Fire energy does not trigger anything in its location, the same way a street lamp could. For example a garden light in the South area close to your house will produce a very strong Fire energy – can your chart take it?

• Pond and Water feature should be used with great care. They are all the rage in New Age Feng Shui but in traditional Feng Shui Water is a powerful Element that should be handled with care; not everybody can take it as a beneficial Element

• Likewise, swimming pools should be handled with great care. They are not recommended in traditional Feng shui.

• Do not obstruct your front door with a lot of plants, small trees etc

• A very tall tree overshadowing the house, a window or the front door can block the Chi.

However those few points do not constitute a body of Feng Shui called the “Feng Shui garden”. Such concept is modern Mc feng Shui, not traditional one. I have seen rich people with good relationship whom have very bad gardens!

So, even if I have tried to work out the problem, I CANNOT charge you for a Feng Shui garden consultation, sorry!