Feng Shui for Gardens [Paperback]

Lillian Too (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 19, 2000

Lillian Too is the world's leading expert in the increasingly popular field of Feng Shui. This remarkable guide shows how this Chinese art of living in perfect balance with your environment so that health, wealth and happiness ensue, can also work outdoors. This valuable new reference book is designed to help anyone improve the world around them and benefit from the earth's positive energies.

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui for Gardens includes potent Feng Shui formulas and detailed, practical guidelines on the best ways to plan and landscape your yard and garden. Lillian Too provides invaluable advice on water, trees, plants and architectural features. Learn how to create a beautiful, relaxing and positive environment which can harness the earth's natural energies and nourish every aspect of your life.

Illustrated in full-color throughout, this beautiful and practical book is packed with specially commissioned photographs, 3-D models and stunning pictures from around the world. There are also informative garden plans and step-by-step landscaping ideas to try in your own garden. Follow its advice and a vibrant, healthy and harmonious garden will surround your home, bringing success in your career, improving relationships and enhancing your well-being.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd. (December 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862043558
• ISBN-13: 978-1862043558
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,170,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDER BOOK, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui for Gardens (Paperback)

This is the best book ever. Very comprehensive, it works like a reference book. CLearly illustrated, so well organized and explained, it's the perfect gift for someone you care for. The feng shui in it really works. Since discovering feng shui through Lillian, our lives have changed so tremendously for the better, me and my husband just want to know more.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly stunning GARDEN book, January 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Feng Shui for Gardens (Paperback)

I have to say this is my first reading of a feng shui book.And I am completely delighted and charmed by the subject and by Lillian Too's wonderful low key approach to the subject... there was simply so much in this book .. all her suggestions are practical and makes sense ... the book is also very readable !!

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely impractical for most gardeners., August 11, 2001

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Sharon Wylie (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feng Shui for Gardens (Paperback)

If you just bought yourself a big empty lot and will be designing and building your house and garden, this is the perfect book for you. For the rest of us with small, non-rectangular lots and existing houses, this book is useless.

I've never understood why so many people have a hard time understanding feng shui, but reading this book illuminated me. My interest in feng shui comes from Karen Rauch Carter and Terah Kathryn Collins, both of whom take ancient philosophies and practically and usefully apply them to Western culture. Lillian Too's feng shui seems to me to be so rigid as to be impossible for the majority of us to implement.

For example, this book advises that water elements (ponds, fountains) should go on the north side of your property. Well, that's not where I want (or have room) for my fountain. I want a fountain--where else can I put it? This book doesn't say, leaving me with the impression I'm courting feng shui disaster to place a fountain anywhere else in my yard.

This book also advises that palm trees, because of their height and the shape of their leaves, are dangerous to have anywhere around your home. As a Southern Californian, I find this very hard to believe. I also don't care for the assertion that cacti and other desert plants are dry and "dead" and therefore bad to have in my garden. Am I supposed to purchase only those plants that grow in China, regardless of my own climate and soil conditions?

I had hoped to obtain some sound advice to help me design my garden, but this book is filled with inflexible dictates rather than helpful guidelines. There aren't many feng shui gardening books out there, but I'll wait for a good one to be published. I got my money back for this one.