If you’re going to do it, do it right. If you haven’t had your house analyzed by a competent practitioner, deciding to create a “feng shui garden” can make your life worse.

It’s not about the “eight fundamental life sectors” idiocy. It’s not about “A pond would look great over there.”

Do you know where to dig in a particular year? Where to avoid remodeling, or in what months? What level and type of planting is appropriate for a particular microclimate in the yard, based on what the house requires according to feng shui?

You cannot map lineaments out from the house — that is Western architectural theory.

Read Maggie Keswick’s book on Chinese gardens before you attempt anything. What will you learn? The great gardens began with a good feng shui reading (from someone who used a compass and didn’t blather on about all that “intuitive” nonsense).