The importance of uderstanding alignments  and poisonarrows when planning and planting bamboos and grasses in oriental style FengShui gardens

  Alignmentsand Poison Arrows:

Alignments, straight roads and paths,sharp edges and acute corners are an anathema in any situation in Feng Shui,irrespective of whichever school or form you follow. The Qi we wish to attractflows gently in and accumulates around our homes gardens and ourselves lookingfor bright clean uncluttered spaces to accumulate and settle. If Qi travelsalong a straight road open space or path, it accelerates and becomes thenegative types of energy that we wish to avoid however by  subtle andintuitive placement of our plants we can slow soften or screen out these badinfluences

I f youare unfortunate to live on a stretch of  fast road, any beneficial ShengQi will accelerate to become Sha Qi., it will pass you by, sweeping along atspeed with the rush of the traffic. If you are  live at the end of a roador in a house on a Tee junction or on the outside of a sharp bend rather thanin the curve of the bend, you will be in a line with this poor Qi and itcould affect your property.

Housesin these situations are said to be in the line of a poison arrow. They areconsidered  inauspicious. The option here would be naturally to plant ahedge or screen to block the poison arrows and protect yourself from theharmful influences such as pollution, noise and vibration carried on the ShaQi,and try to encourage the good energies from another direction by sympatheticand harmonised placement of plants.

Compost heaps, broken walls and fences, rubble, soilpipes, rubbish, open drains, long straight drivewaysor paths and  linear and uniform garden planning and plantingschemes telegraph poles and pylons are also included in this group of badplacements and should be fixed, removed, repaired, or screened or hidden fromsite.

Inside the garden, Qi should flow and accumulatefreely gathering in the Ming Tang or bright hallway, the most Yang orenergized space on the facing side of your property. From this bright pool orhall it should be free to flow into and around the building, through everywindow and all doors. Through the very fabric, unobstructed finding everycorner and hollow, soaking in. Sheng Qi does not respond well to cluttered anddark areas where it gets trapped and stagnates, or where there are too manysharp corners or obstructions, where it becomes aggressive and angry.

Good FengShui screen. Semiarundinaria fastuosa

StippaTenuissima good for screening sound

Miscanthuscabaret Eulalia grass for to hide dry arid areas

Deschampsia Hair grass'Northern lights'. Soft russle in the breeze.

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