Feng Shui Tips for Your Garden 5 Elements

Feng Shui Tips for Your Garden: 5 Elements

Date: 4/12/11 | Season: Spring

You want your outdoor space to be as beautiful and as functional as possible. The principles of Feng Shui can help you create both of these important factors in your Colorado garden.

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement. By placing things to encourage the beneficial flow of Chi (Energy Force) you can create harmonious change that may even effect your health, wealth and relationships! Yin (feminine energy) and yang (masculine energy) are important in Feng Shui practices. This goes along with creating harmony and balance. Feel free to consult a bagua map to help you lay out your plans or use these simple suggestions.

Five Natural Elements of Feng Shui
Incorporate these natural elements into your garden space for improved balance and general well being. Statues and ornaments can be used as well. Each of these elements is associated with a particular color and a particular direction.

Wood (Health & Vitality) – Brown / Green - East and Southeast
Fire (Passion & High Energy) – Red / Orange - South
Earth (Nourishment & Stability) – Yellow / Beige – Northeast and Southwest
Water (Ease, Freshness & Abundance) – Blue / Black - North
Metal (Clarity & Preciseness) – White / Gray - West and Northwest

Feng Shui practices focus on making your space clean, efficient and flowing. Movement in your space should be very easy. Creating harmony and balance is the goal.

Updated and refreshing your garden with Feng Shui practices is a very pleasant and fun and exercise to do. Grab the whole family and get outside to improve your outdoor space!

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