4 Reasons to Apply Feng Shui to Your Garden

Using Feng Shui in your garden can bring an element of balance and “completeness” to your environment. Feng Shui and the Garden The branch of Feng Shui which concerns itself with the natural landscape is often called “Form School” or “Landscape School.” Reasons for paying attention to a garden or a home’s exteriors: 1. To make sure that the house is adequately protected from harsher elements (like wind and rain) 2. To enhance the energies of a house 3. To shore up or help maintain the good energies which flow around a structure 4. To create an extension of the house and its functions.   Reason #1 When you have a house that is perched at the very top if a hill, it can be vulnerable to high force winds. What is needed is an armchair like landscape where there can be walls, hedges, and/or trees to protect the house from having too much wind whip around it. As well, if you had a house at the very bottom of a hill, it could be vulnerable to flooding so the landscape would need to help divert or shield the house from an onslaught of excessive water drainage. There always needs to be a balance. For instance, a house that has too many trees and casts a chronic shadow on the house could make the house very dark, and the occupants will get depressed. At the same time, a house without any vegetation around it will feel desolate, and there could even be a circumstance of too much sun beating down on it. So, Feng Shui for the landscape is critical in creating the balance of yin and yang aspects.   Reason #2 Enhancing the energies inside a house by doing something on the outside is confirmation that the two spaces…

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