I was having a game of golf at Nambucca Heads on the New South Wales Mid North Coast and my playing partner asked me what was I doing next? I had just returned from overseas and I think the locals get a fair bit of chat material from my movements and things I get up to. ‘’Well’’, I replied, ‘’I’m [...]
You may be wondering what’s happening with Number 3. The garden is in a stage of transformation and I would describe it as being ‘’In the Yin’’. As such the plantings are just taking hold and visually imaging a sea of mulch (browns) and plants (greens) doing their thing, lawn taking hold and in all the garden looking drab and [...]
Transformations, transformations and a need to work, but Number 3 is getting there and the garden’s taking shape. It definitely is a garden on the curve and I’ve deliberately set it out to ensure not one straight line of vision or image is projected. So simple and effective, the Chi flow is uplifting to all who enter or view as [...]
Time waits for no one as the saying goes and progress, I’m not too sure. It requires commitment and effort, but Number 3 is changing and becoming closer to have a go at some gardening. The relocatable was more run down than expected and took time, energy and that dreaded word, money to get it up and running. I’m back [...]
Progress, and the new decking and veranda to Number 3 is in place and providing the location to ensconce myself upon a chair to imagine the beneficial Chi I hope to create. I’m sitting on the chair because this is the place I want as the core of Chi, a place where the energy of my surroundings come to me [...]
Boxes, sheds, toys, ah! Toys, toys everywhere. This is a kid’s backyard, not a backyard in a suburban home for a distraught mum, wanting relief and calm. No sacred space or place for passivity of Chi to emerge and unite with its owner. This is the backyard to a home Day Care Child Minding Centre. A suburban backyard located in [...]
Wow! What a mess. An overgrown and out of control garden completely neglected for many years and showing it. Yet in days gone by, Number 3 contained a very pleasant garden from what I understand. Laid out by a man and his wife, very neat, tidy and offering a place for potted plants, garden seating, a vegetable patch, shedding for [...]
What every gardener fears, their work and energy now in the hands of someone else. A new owner has arrived and taken over the garden, a place where its Chi flow had been nurtured, harboured, energised and harmonious. A fear emerging the new owner would make changes and ‘’kill’’ the magic of their once treasured place. But not so, when [...]
Relocatable Home in Lorikeet Lane ‘’Bit of a challenge you’ve got there’’, the elderly neighbour said. ‘’It’s been neglected for a few years. What do you have in mind?’’ I replied’’ I’m going to redo the garden and harmonise its natural Chi (Qi) energies, you know, use Feng Shui”. He looked perplexed and probably thought his new neighbour isn’t all [...]