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Feng Shui Front Door Tips for Abundance, Luck & Protection

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 INSIDE: With these feng shui front door tips, you can simply and easily bring more abundance, luck, and protection into your home and your life. You'll learn about what colors to use, how to decorate your main entrance, and what plants and crystals to add.   In Feng Shui, our front door is a mouth of Chi. It is a symbol of energy exchange, where the outer world gets to meet our personal space. Our front doors are, in a sense the main gateway, where we can invite in positivity and block the unwanted energy from coming into our little sanctuary. By creating nourishing and protective energy around it, we get to influence the vibration that enters our home. What Can These Feng Shui Front Door Tips Do for You? As mentioned in Psychology Today, studies have shown that clean and bright spaces have an incredibly positive effect on our wellbeing, increasing overall happiness.  We can do so by making little differences in space around the main entrance, and Feng Shui can help us d...

The Feng Shui Wealth Corner: How to Decorate it for Prosperity

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 With so many people struggling financially , we thought it would be prudent to show you how you can improve your financial life simply by setting up a feng shui wealth corner in your home.  This is a fun way to shift your energy so that you can welcome in the abundance and prosperity you seek.  How to Increase Wealth With Feng Shui Feng shui is the ancient Chinese art/science of altering the energy in a space through the conscious arrangement of objects and colors. Since everything is energy, we are always emitting messages to the universe about how we would things to be in our lives. The problem is that most of time, we are completely unaware of the messages we are sending out; therefore, we create what we don't want unintentionally. By using feng shui meaning, we are making a conscious choice to send the Universe certain messages so that we can intentionally create what we want. In this way, we can enhance our wealth and prosperity through feng shui practices. The easi...

Trending Water Feature

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  Water is a soothing natural element that can add comfort and ambience to any outdoor space. Whether it’s a pond, fountain, waterfall or bubbling rock, water features continue to be a popular design element for outdoor living spaces. As this practice continues to evolve, technology and contemporary design preferences are definitely influencing the trends. WATER FEATURE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS Smart Features More and more homes are becoming integrated with smart-home technology, and this is making its way into outdoor living spaces. One of the hottest trends is to incorporate “smart” technology into water features so that homeowners can use a smartphone app, Alexa or Google Home device to turn the feature on or off. Solar Technology Utilizing solar technology for a water feature offers multiple benefits. Not only does it eliminate the ongoing costs of electricity to power the water feature pump, but also eliminates the need to run electrical utilities to the water feature. This is especi...

Plants for Creating a Japanese Garden

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  Historically, Zen Gardens were created to provide peace in times of war and strife. With all that’s going on in the world, it’s important to take time and create space for solitude, reflection, and relaxation . You can achieve this spiritual haven in your own backyard with elements including water, rocks, and plants . Whether you're looking to fill a small space or large yard, there are several plants available on Garden Goods Direct to create a Japanese Garden of your own. Before we move on to the plant options, here’s a few essential elements to achieve the Zen Garden look and feel in your outdoor space. It’s important to create a space that drives the emotion of mystery, calmness, and tranquility while connecting you with nature. The ultimate goal is to create a picturesque backyard Zen Garden that evokes your senses of smell, sight, and sound.                                       ...

Soil and Plant Nutrition

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  Soil is a dynamic three-dimensional substance that covers some of the world’s land surface. It varies from place to place, in response to the five factors that form it: climate, topography, organisms , the parent rock below surface, and time. Our Maine soils developed since the last glacier moved across the region, largely in response to the parent rock (largely granite) and topography. Most Maine soils are acidic, and have a somewhat depressed ability to hold and exchange nutrients used by plants. Our native plants evolved in this system, and are well adapted to Maine soils. However, we often amend Maine soils by adding organic matter, lime and/or fertilizer, in order to increase the productivity of our food and landscape plants.                                                        Soil performs four major functions: It provides habitat fo...

A Zen Garden

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 Japanese Zen Gardens                                                    Creating a zen garden is a great way to reduce stress, improve your focus, and develop a sense of well-being. Read this article to find out more about Japanese zen gardens so you can reap the benefits they provide.  What is a Zen Garden? Zen gardens, also called Japanese rock gardens , appeal to people who like carefully controlled settings of raked sand or rocks and precisely clipped shrubs. If you’re more likely to find serenity in the natural look of a woodland setting and find peace when surrounded by wildflowers and soft-textured plants, you should think about a more traditional or natural garden.                                                  ...

THE LATEST TRENDS IN WATER FEATURES

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 Water is a soothing natural element that can add comfort and ambience to any outdoor space. Whether it’s a pond, fountain, waterfall or bubbling rock, water features continue to be a popular design element for outdoor living spaces. As this practice continues to evolve, technology and contemporary design preferences are definitely influencing the trends. WATER FEATURE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS Smart Features More and more homes are becoming integrated with smart-home technology, and this is making its way into outdoor living spaces. One of the hottest trends is to incorporate “smart” technology into water features so that homeowners can use a smartphone app, Alexa or Google Home device to turn the feature on or off. Solar Technology Utilizing solar technology for a water feature offers multiple benefits. Not only does it eliminate the ongoing costs of electricity to power the water feature pump, but also eliminates the need to run electrical utilities to the water feature. This is especia...