The Feng Shui Garden: Design Your Garden for Health, Wealth, and Happiness [Paperback]

Gill Hale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 1998

This highly accessible, practical book shows readers how to direct and make use of the natural flow of energy in a garden, patio, balcony, or backyard. Full-color photographs, illustrations, charts, and call-outs make enigmatic principles easy to understand and apply.

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From the Back Cover

Harness Natural Energies to Improve Your Life

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art that helps us to live harmoniously with our environment. By applying its principles to your garden, patio, balcony, or backyard, you can revitalize your space in a natural way, and bring harmony and happiness into your life.

This highly accessible, practical book shows us how to observe the natural patterns and energies at work around us, and make use of them for our own benefit. Find out how to sense the flow of chi -- the universal life force -- in and around your garden. Does it flow freely, indicating health and abundance, or is it blocked? Learn how to determine the balance of yin and yang, and how to interpret the shapes and colors of the five Chinese elements.

The Feng Shui Garden shows how by simply transforming a flowerbed, moving a garden seat, or re-routing a path you can create your very own special place. Improve the balance of energy in this way and you will also improve your life!

-- Highly visual, practical approach to using Feng Shui in any garden

-- Simple gardening solutions to various life problems

-- How to "read" the environment to create balance and harmony

-- Organic gardening techniques

-- Charts presenting age-old methods of moon and companion planting

About the Author

A visit to Hong Kong several years ago resulted in author Gill Hale's interest in Feng Shui and Taoism. She has gardened organically for over 20 years using moon- and companion-planting techniques. Gill is also a Feng Shui garden consultant and lectures at the Feng Shui Society (for which she is also a book reviewer), The Feng Shui Association, and organic gardening groups in the United Kingdom. She has compiled her knowledge into the book, The Feng Shui Garden. Additionally, Gill writes regular articles on the subject and has appeared in Parkes and Gardens on Radio 4, and her garden was featured in Mind Body Spirit on Cable TV when she appeared in a speacial on geopathic stress. Gill lives in London with her daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170226
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170222
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,191,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beginners Take Care, October 10, 2000

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This review is from: The Feng Shui Garden: Design Your Garden for Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)

Gill Hale has done a nice job of introducing Feng Shui concepts, but I feel this book is perilously lacking in depth. OK for those who want to dabble because it's trendy, but not much else. Photos are good; basic design advice is sound. BUT as a Feng Shui landscape design consultant with several years experience I have grave reservations about anyone relying on this book for serious Feng Shui. Hale's grasp of many FS concepts seems superficial at best, and possibly harmful if not well understood when applied. For serious readers I strongly suggest instead Lillian Too's 'Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui for Gardens', very readable, lots of good photos & diagrams.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tangible philosophy, April 11, 2000

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This review is from: The Feng Shui Garden: Design Your Garden for Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)

I have had a necklace for years with the I Ching symbols, but I never knew their meanings. In this 228 page beautiful book, feng shui is explained beautifully and simply. For the first time I understand the elements and their relationship with energy, astrology and healing. Simply the best book I have read for novices like me who have admired the tranquillity and peace of oriental gardens but were unable to capture the techniques required to plan such a simple yet complex space.

7 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellence in photography and headings to find info, April 19, 2000

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This review is from: The Feng Shui Garden: Design Your Garden for Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)

I really like the color photos. She is very clear and informative as well as encouraging.It made me feel like staying home just to garden!