Does your garden have accidental sculpture?
Author: Kathleen TumpaneAccording to feng shui, your garden, just like the interior of your home, is symbolic of your current life and/or your aspirations.
When your garden design is created with your personal preferences for colors, scents, seating groups, entertainment style, the principles of feng shui are well served. If fabulous garden design using feng shui is of particular interest to you, you’ll want to own my friend, Minnie Kansman’s book, Spirit Gardens.
Regularly maintained and beautiful landscaping around a home makes you feel good and is, of course, good feng shui.
And if gardens are neglected - they can nag you and set you into a state of overwhelm in seconds. Not surprisingly -- not good feng shui.
The good news is that weeding, planting, raking, etcetera is wonderful therapy and immensely satisfying. Even if you choose to direct others to do so rather than physically do the work yourself, both the process and the results soothe you.
The patio and garden areas are particularly important feng shui wise when the footprint of the home (the shape the perimeter walls create) is irregular, as many custom new homes are.
When the footprint is like a lower case “h,” for example, a sizable section of the house is extended on the far left corner. This means that both the Fame/Reputation area and the Relationship area are outside the home.
A footprint like a capital “C” will mean the Creativity/Children area is an alcove patio/garden.
A backwards “C” puts the Family/Physical Health area outside.
Patio areas with comfortable seating groups and pots planted with healthy plants, adjoining gardens with vigorous blooms “fill” those areas with lots of wonderful energy.
Garden art, statues, and fountains provide powerful symbols to enhance particular areas.
A bronze of children playing in the Family area states quite emphatically the owners’ love of their children and grandchildren. This one is called, "Hitchin' A Ride" by Trueblood available through CODA Gallery.
A life-size John Kennedy “Friends and Lovers” sculpture in the Relationship area (far left corner from the street) casts the owners’ desire for or experience of intimacy in bronze. Available from CODA Gallery.
A less expensive and more subtle relationship symbol for the garden is a pair of rose quartz boulders, one slightly larger than the other. Available in the desert at Whitewater Rock Supply.
Another less pricey solution is a pair of interesting pots with vibrant flowering plants in them.
Any sculpture that strikes you as stunningly creative works well in the Creativity Area of your garden.
All that is well and good. But what about the accidental sculpture?
Like kid’s bicycles laying in the front yard. Yup, a symbol that the kids rule the roost – and a physical hazard, too.
Or how about a car that needs fixing – and remains untouched for months? Perhaps a symbol that the owners don’t really want to go anywhere.
Go outside and look at your garden as if you’ve never seen it before.
Post your answers to one or more of these questions in the "comment" box. Best and worst get a prize!
- Do you have garden sculpture?
- Did you choose it or did it the former owners?
- Do you love it?
- Do you have some accidental sculpture?
- What does it say about you?
If there is stuff out there that just isn’t “you,” you’re better off, feng shui wise, without it. Even if the garden then feels a tad empty. That will motivate you to choose new symbols that DO demonstrate the way you choose to live and be.
Copyright © 2009 Kathleen Tumpane. All rights reserved.
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