Feng Shui In The Garden

Feng Shui Interprets Your Garden Features

By Kartar Diamond

There is a whole branch of classical Feng Shui which deals with the outside environment. It is called Form School or Landscape School. But outside and inside are forever entwined in terms of how they can affect the occupants.

Most people love the sight and sound of a trickling fountain, but there can actually be bad locations according to the most sophisticated Feng Shui analysis. Some houses need water in the front while others need water in the back. But one generality that will be true until 2024, is that water aligned with the east sector of your property can help attract wealth. How can you know where the east sector of your property is? You absolutely need to use a compass because Feng Shui utilizes magnetic compass directions and just estimating where east might be is often not good enough.

Is there a bad location for water? Yes, one generality is that water aligned with the northeast sector of a house can be undermining for financial luck until 2024.

Other general truths about outside water features is that the water itself must be clean and ideally circulating. Stagnant, dirty water is worse than no water at all. As well, it is best when a multi-tiered fountain appears to have the water flowing toward a house and not away from it. Of course, many fountains simply flow from up to down and that is always fine.

What about trees? Lush, healthy trees can often be a bonus to any property as long as the tree does not cast a chronic shadow on the house and as long as the tree roots don’t buckle pavement or foundations. People often worry about the pointy edges of plant leaves because of the propagation of some annoying Feng Shui myths. But most plants are fine. Rose bushes and thorny cactus plants should just be far enough away from foot traffic that they will not poke anyone.