Sustainable Feng Shui Gardening

by Ross Lamond

Overview

There’s Sustainability, Feng Shui and Gardening. Mix them together and we get Sustainable Feng Shui Gardening. Catchy phrase but do they fit together? Ross Lamond believes they do and using his fifty years practical experience working with the land and applying his own interpretation of Feng Shui in the garden, he explored their relationship. He realised beneficial Chi (Qi) energies permeate everything and coupled with a garden's Yin and Yang, a garden could remain sustainable once its Feng Shui became harmonised. Harmony and sustainability fit side by side.
Ross realised natural places practice sustainability but many domestic gardens do not because the gardener isn’t aware of some gardening applications which can benefit the garden’s health, well-being and longevity. Gardeners are missing out, and for some, they are creating places separate to what Nature, a garden’s energy and Feng Shui envisage.
But there’s hope. Ross found by balancing a garden's Yin and Yang, its sustainability was greatly enhanced. It wasn’t all about composting, organic vegetable growing, mulching and the like. It was about the everyday garden along any street becoming sustainable by balancing its Yin and Yang alongside its Chi (Qi), its Five Element Balance and ‘sha and sheng’ energies. These relate to Feng Shui, but Ross realised a garden is also about Nature, it’s a personal place and it’s about the flow of energies we’re aware of. Energies such as time and money spent on labour, machinery and construction. The energy of air and water movement, the energy encapsulated within the soil, a garden’s plants, its insects and birdlife. The garden is a composition of energies mixing it up and each linking to sustain or detract from the garden’s sustainability.
All thought provoking stuff and a realisation a garden’s sustainability is up to the gardener themself. They guide, build or deflate its sustainability, but once they become aware and attune to its benefits (and personal energy) they become uplifted as they connect more deeply with their surroundings.
Ross realised why not put all of these parts together to create a unique vision for the garden. He seems to be making a habit of digging up new ideas for the garden. He would be interested in helping gardeners apply some of the ideas. Especially those interested in creating an Energy Garden built by guiding energy flow or a Feng Shui Garden built on Feng Shui practice and testing the process.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045221085
Publisher:	Ross Lamond
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ross Lamond is the youngest member of a well-known and respected dairy farming family of the New South Wales South Coast, Australia.

He schooled away from home, completing secondary studies at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney. Upon leaving school, Ross returned to the family farm and over a forty year period, gained extensive experience in dairying, beef cattle production, sugarcane, small crop cultivation and horticulture. An ever present interest in the garden naturalised into that of a nurseryman, landscape gardener and grower of in ground trees for landscape.

Concern about environmental issues such as tree decline, dry land salinity and habitat degradation led Ross into external studies in Environment at Mitchell College of Advanced Education at Bathurst, followed by post graduate studies in Urban and Regional planning at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

A chance reading of a Feng Shui publication in 1998, introduced Ross to Feng Shui and its influence on our lives and surroundings. He applied some of its principles into the garden and developed his own interpretation of Feng Shui garnished through personal experience and observation. The interest has led Ross into a journey of self-discovery including that of nature, environmentalism and spirituality. It’s an ever growing interest.

Ross lives by himself, has four grown up children, and likes to travel and garden and write about his experiences and observations.