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Best Way to Use Mirrors, Plants and Wind Chimes in Feng Shui

If your hall is dark and the energy feels stagnant or flat you can speed up the flow of energy by using mirrors. If your hall is small or cramped, mirrors are there to help, as they can make it look a lot larger.

The ideal place for mirrors is… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Feng Shui Your Home with Plants

Plants are unique in that they bring natural living chi energy into your home which could otherwise be a dead space.

Healthy, growing plants have been found to be the most effective way of cleaning the air in a room. This has become more important today as rooms are increasingly… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Plant Mail-Order Plants

Mail-order nurseries ship their plants in the way best calculated to get them to the customer in good condition, so they may be bare-root, potted, or dug and wrapped. Consider first the plants that are shipped bare-root. These are totally dormant and have been held in cold storage since they… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Paint Your Garden with Sculptural Plants

These are plants that by dint of their size, shape and texture have a dramatic influence on gardens. Some of them have giant, majestic foliage, others sword-like leaves and spartan stems, and a few have pretty, clustered flower heads.

Bold, spiky, long-leaved, dramatic or plain eccentric-looking, architectural or sculptural plants… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Deal with Old Plants in New Garden

Whenever moving house presents a gardener with an existing garden packed with shrubs, trees and climbers, the questions ‘are they too old and overgrown?’ and ‘should they be dug up?’ immediately spring to mind. If the plant is in the right position, but overgrown, do not remove it but rather… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Color Your Garden with Herbaceous plants

Herbaceous plants are generally easy to grow and will repay the initial effort involved in planting them. Once established, they create magnificent displays for three to five years before being dug up, divided and re-planted into new flowering positions.

The range of herbaceous plants is wide; some have spectacular flowers,… Continue Reading…