Every artist BUILDS excellence on a storng "bone structure," whether it be sculpture, painting, or garden design. There are underlying rules that hold up, put together, and make a stronger vehicle for one's message by following structure rules. In the cold regions there is no better time to observe garden bones than mid winter when the landscape is bare and the lines and angles of the garden are clearly seen. The challenge is trusting in your personal vision, once the design of your garden is put into place. Always there will be room for change. When one loses faith in their design they copy the pages of magazines. This is the point where cookie cutter gardens that all look the same begin to happen.. DARE TO GO OUTSIDE THE BOX.
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GARDEN BONES * Mystical Garden Design
WHAT YOUR GARDEN SAYS ABOUT YOU
Your garden is a mirror of your favorite colors and personal essence
Your garden reflects the sounds you love through the birds you feed, the chimes you choose, or the water features you include.
Your garden reflects the stage of life you are in, by the amount of ground you choose to nurchure, due to children, empty nest syndrome, body fitness or frequent vacationing.
Your garden indicates whether you are an outside person, or inside one, by the tell-tale people signs of strewn garden hose, books lying on lawn chairs or scarcity of it seen...
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MYSTICAL TRELLIS TRINKET ROOM
One can almost hear the chant of monks as the sun filters through the aged wood trellis diamonds. Your room needs a table or bench of character. Place candles, bells, poetry, garden masks and smaller statuary here. A window cut out for chimes adds sweet music . Against your Mystical Trellis Trinket Room walls plant flowering vines of Clematis, Morning Glory and Honey Suckle. Now your trinkets are not taking over the yard, but...
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HOW TO CHOOSE WIND CHIMES
Match your Garden Spirit - What Kind are You?
Choose carefully your wind chimes. Close your eyes as they ring and make your mind still. Does the sound clash...or call gently to your inner Zen? The music of your chimes will mellow with age and pick up the essence of your home. Soon they will play your very own song........
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SOUL PALLETE COLORS
Mysteriously through your garden, the stages of your life guide you to your emotional "soul palette" colors. The seeds that you plant symbolically represent recovery. Pick a sculpture that defines your life journey. Make sure it is sturdy. Choose flower colors that sooth you, elighten or create rapture within your soul. Through the flowers...
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HEARING GROUND MESSAGES THROUGH SPIRITUAL TOOLS
Before creating a mystical garden space, I use a deck of Tarot in the same way a water stick finds a well. Placing the cards on the ground I enviision the meditation sanctuary, and channel the lands vital spiritual message.
Alone, or with wine and like minded friends, you maywish to use a quartz crystal pendulumfor recieving and amplifying ground energy.
You may spread rune stones on a cloth above the chosen mystical meditation space for a message.
You may choose to say a ceremony prayer such as..."Holy Goddess and Angels, mother of earth, mother of us all, guide my.........
For Feng Shui energy directional Color Hues, Elements and Placement of South, East and West in which to create a strong bone structure for your own mystical garden..
