How to create a Garden for your Shores Environment
Each of the six classic Human Design environments can be found everywhere.
Caves, Markets and Kitchens People resonate with a hardscape; these are man-made areas that define a particular space.
For example, having a yard with a fence around the perimeter creates a defined hardscape — better for Caves, Markets and Kitchens.
Mountains, Valleys and Shores people resonate with a landscape; this is more formless and changeable than the hardscape as energy around a space can shift and change with time.
For example, let’s say there are a series of break-ins in your community, this would affect hardscape and landscape people differently. The landscape group is more sensitive to the changes in the wider community than hardscape people.
Of course, while these changes may still bother the hardscape people — no one likes a break-in! — it’s important to note it could affect the landscape group in a different way. Landscape and Hardscape environments are sensitive to different things.
In Landscape Feng Shui principles, looking for the four celestial creatures in the land masses around you depicts an auspicious environment. Learning to read the wider surroundings around your home using this form of Feng Shui might be a fun practice, particularly for Mountains, Valleys and Shores people — although everyone can benefit!
Check out this post to read about how finding the four Celestial Creatures around your home can bring auspiciousness.
Try two distinct sides
Whether that’s the North or the South side, the front yard or the backyard, or simply laying out your garden like a galley-style kitchen, experiment with two distinct areas that you can view from different perspectives.
Create another world
How can you get swept away into another world just by going into your garden? Do you need towering plants? Colourful blooms? A surrounding oasis with all the finishing touches? Lights! Flowers! Wooden built-ins! Consider if you want to play with a theme, a colour, a trend, or something else that the space calls for. Create another world for you to step into.
Ensure good flow
Depending on the space available to you, how can you create different areas that all flow together, creating one large complementary space? It’s great if your garden can spill into other areas, perhaps not so isolated in one area of your yard, but rather taking over the space in creative ways.
Select a dynamic variety of plants
Grow as many different diverse plants as you can. We love diversity in the shore. Whether you bring in different colours, different plants, different textures, or even different food groups, consider how you can create a rich and diverse ecosystem.
Try composting
Save your scraps, prune your dead or wilted plant material, and transform it in a composting site. These can be as large or as small as you need. I’m in a small space and love to use the Lomi. It fits on the counter and makes fresh soil within a few hours. Transforming your plants and organic matter into new rich soil and using it to grow new plants is SO shores!
Grow a smoke-cleansing garden
Grow your plant material for your spiritual rituals. Grow herbs with density that dry and bundle well and use them for smoke cleansing your environment to bring the energy field back to neutral. My favourite plants to grow, dry and bundle are rosemary, sage, lavender and any dried flowers. (I like to bundle flowers with my herbs and burn them in a firesafe dish). I also like to grow bay leaves as these are great to burn on their own as one offs. Highly recommend.
