Feng Shui and Gardening Feng Shui and Gardening None of the popular authors who write or lecture about Feng Shui and gardens know anything about the subject. They discuss Western landscape philosophy and call it Feng Shui for the garden. Landscape design is not just a matter of putting up a building, planting trees and flowers, or building an artificial mountain. It is a means of revealing one's attitude of life by displaying landscape esthetically.
Landscape needs to be restrained, gentle, and understated.
We should modestly hide, not boldly dominate as is fashionable in the West. This enables a more intimate experience and sense of fitting into the environment. Discern the truth by studying the past. Stand between science and theology. Combine ethics with esthetics.