The importance of uderstanding alignments  and poison arrows when planning and planting bamboos and grasses in oriental style Feng Shui gardens

  Alignments and Poison Arrows:

Alignments, straight roads and paths, sharp edges and acute corners are an anathema in any situation in Feng Shui, irrespective of whichever school or form you follow. The Qi we wish to attract flows gently in and accumulates around our homes gardens and ourselves looking for bright clean uncluttered spaces to accumulate and settle. If Qi travels along a straight road open space or path, it accelerates and becomes the negative types of energy that we wish to avoid however by  subtle and intuitive placement of our plants we can slow soften or screen out these bad influences

If you are unfortunate to live on a stretch of  fast road, any beneficial Sheng Qi will accelerate to become Sha Qi., it will pass you by, sweeping along at speed with the rush of the traffic. If you are  live at the end of a road or in a house on a Tee junction or on the outside of a sharp bend rather than in the curve of the bend, you will be in a line with this poor Qi and it could affect your property.

Houses in these situations are said to be in the line of a poison arrow. They are considered  inauspicious. The option here would be naturally to plant a hedge or screen to block the poison arrows and protect yourself from the harmful influences such as pollution, noise and vibration carried on the Sha Qi,and try to encourage the good energies from another direction by sympathetic and harmonised placement of plants.

Compost heaps, broken walls and fences, rubble, soil pipes, rubbish, open drains, long straight driveways or paths and  linear and uniform garden planning and planting schemes telegraph poles and pylons are also included in this group of bad placements and should be fixed, removed, repaired, or screened or hidden from site.

Inside the garden, Qi should flow and accumulate freely gathering in the Ming Tang or bright hallway, the most Yang or energized space on the facing side of your property. From this bright pool or hall it should be free to flow into and around the building, through every window and all doors. Through the very fabric, unobstructed finding every corner and hollow, soaking in. Sheng Qi does not respond well to cluttered and dark areas where it gets trapped and stagnates, or where there are too many sharp corners or obstructions, where it becomes aggressive and angry.

Good Feng Shui screen. Semiarundinaria fastuosa

Stippa Tenuissima good for screening sound

Miscanthus cabaret Eulalia grass for to hide dry arid areas

Deschampsia Hair grass 'Northern lights'. Soft russle in the breeze.

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