5 Essential Feng Shui Garden Elements
Feng Shui Gardening Basics
No matter how big or how small your outdoor garden, your ideal feng shui landscape design should represent the various unique aspects of your life and incorporate the basic Feng Shui elements and principles to stimulate, control, or balance your home's energy as needed. Your Garden design should allow the flow and movement of Chi (life force energy) to move freely throughout by making use of the essential universal qualities of feng shui, these five basic elements are Water, Wood, Earth, Met...

Easy Dream Garden Design
Your Own Paradise Garden Design
So you want a dream garden, your own paradise, a little oasis of civilization - The biggest problem with any garden design or indeed any form of landscaping is understanding the local elements. A home owner in the Nevada dessert may dearly love an English country garden but without replacing their indigenous sand for British type soil and changing the weather conditions, it isn't going to happen. All too often we look at our gardens and perhaps see a mass of confusion, this creates complica...

Designing a Small Front Garden
Designing a cottage garden
When I asked professional landscape gardeners about giving my front garden a makeover, they said it would cost about 2,000 ($3,337) . What I really wanted was just a modest bit of paving to replace an awful grassed area which was looking parched and weedy, and then a profusion of flowers like an old fashioned cottage garden. They laughed at me, and said it would look awful, but I decided to go it alone, and in the end they swallowed their words and agreed it looked quite pretty. It was fair...

Garden Design NEW!
Garden design and decor. It's springtime and time to decide what plants and shrubs to purchase for our flower gardens. Elaborate garden designs have been in use for hundreds of years in various countries. They are beautiful to look at but it's better to have our very own to enjoy. It is hard work but that is why we enjoy our own so much more, plus we get the healthy benefits of being out in the fresh air and sunshine and working with the dirt. By the way, working in the dirt is especially ben...