By utilising the four elements and the compass points within the garden you can create a well balanced and relaxing environment with out conflicting with the natural feelings of the area.

Lifestyle Landscapes work in conjunction with Helen Lickerish from Maia Design who is a Feng Shui expert, our Feng Shui designs are overseen by Helen’s expert eye to give the perfect Feng Shui experience in your garden.

Working closely with Maia design enables us to complement the harmony between garden and house, using Helens skills to cleanse and balance the energies in the house and our skills to cleanse and alter the garden, we really can provide a complete Feng Shui experience.

For more information on Feng Shui in your garden, please get in touch.

• Formal and highly symbolic structure
• Symbolic planting
• Strong linear or curving paths
• A focal point, often symmetrically placed

A sacred space can be created within another kind of garden, such as the meditation garden, adding an extra dimension to an already tranquil place.

For more information about Sacred Gardens please get in touch.

We can help you with ponds and all types of water features using natural materials or for those who want a more modern look other materials can be used.

For more information please get in touch.

I work with energy to encourage harmony and balance, strengthening it all with specific plant combinations for rest, healing, protection, stimulus, psychic work or ceremonial use.

If modern elements, such as busy roads, detract from the serenity of an ancient place, then native trees (e.g. oak for strength and permanence, elder for spiritual protection) can sometimes be planted to provide a screen. Soft sounds from moving water, grasses and bamboos can also divert the mind from unwelcome noise.

How do the different aspects of a spiritual garden work?

Trees

Trees are the strongest link to earth, and they encourage the flow of those energies through the other plants. After all, in more spiritually aware times, trees were often important landmarks and meeting places.

Water

A watercourse is a natural channel for the energies in a garden, providing both stimulus and serenity.

The sound of rippling, trickling water can aid meditation, and a still pool of reflected light, plant shadows and sky can add another whole dimension to the landscape.

Often a pool will become the spiritual focal point of the garden, just as springs and wells were sacred in earlier times. Pets, birds and wild animals also find them irresistable.

Lawns and Paths

Walking on soft, silent grass is a wonderful feeling, and I like to use turf in healing gardens. Grass is the foil for planting schemes and can be important in inducing a sense of calm. 

However grass is not suitable for all gardens, and paths made of local materials like bricks, cobbles, stone or wood, serve to divide the space, channel energies and lead the eye to a focal point, a monument, a water feature or a seating area.

Seating

Being still and giving ourselves the chance for contemplation is central to the restorative power of a lovely garden. In order to encourage an enhanced sense of the spiritual in an outdoor space, seating is carefully placed for maximum peace, privacy and vision.

It might be a scented, shady place looking out over a garden filled with colour and light; it might be a private corner framing a vista; it might be a simple linear view ending in a special feature, a pool, an ornament or a monument.

Plants

Colour, perfume, texture, sound, flavour, all the stimuli we need to awaken the senses in our spiritual search. Native flowers and trees link us directly to the land. They flourish in this climate and encourage a balance of insects, birds and mammals to build a healthy ecosystem.

Herbs and medicinal plants add strength to the spiritual links in a garden, as the sun releases their healing oils. Some well-loved flowers have rich healing properties too;

• Foxglove- to treat heart and gall bladder; calming
• Geranium- to treat depression
• Honeysuckle – to treat poor circulation, lungs and bowel
• Hypericum (St John’s wort) – to treat stomach problems such as ulcers
• Lavender – to treat sleeping disorders
• Lilies – to strengthen the immune system
• Marigolds – to aid in healing tissue
• Rosemary – to stimulate memory
• Snowdrops – to aid in grieving and depression

In addition to the special properties of chosen plants, colour combinations can be planned to achieve a particular effect in healing, meditating or spiritual work and ceremony.

This week Mike and Tom from Lifestyle Landscapes spent a day and a half removing our sad old lawn, improving drainage, and thereafter laying a new artificial ‘lazylawn’

Mike & Tom worked incredibly hard. The job involved much manual labour as well as considerable skill in getting the drainage right and laying the new lawn. They did all that we asked of them and more – including supplying us with some compost for the perimeter flower beds.

Not only that, but they cleaned and swept up after them, leaving the place even cleaner and tidier than when they arrived.

Teresa and I are absolutely delighted with our new lawn. Please thank Mike and Tom for us, and we have no hesitation in recommending Lifestyle Landscapes to anyone needing work done in their garden.

Chris & Teresa

Thank you for the work your gardener done. I would like some planting done towards the end of Sep – Oct. 

Everyone who has seen the garden have loved what you’ve done here and so do we.

I will wait until i hear from you as to when you can send someone.

Yours Sincerely

Joe

Thank you for building our garden. It looks fantastic!

We really appreciate your hard work

From everyone at Charlton Horethorne Primary School.

Now that Summer is drawing to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the help and service I have recieved from your company, in particular Gary, in maintaining my garden this year.

After my Husband’s death, I was concerned I would find it very difficult to cope with the garden, however, Lifestyle Landscapes has been an absolute God-send in taking that worry off my shoulder.

It can be very difficult to find people who you can rely on to be honest, professional, hardworking and who genuinely care about the quality of their work and I am very please you were recommended to me.

Best Wishes

Val

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