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Gardens from the Victorian Era were heavily imbued with a kind of symbolism. As in Feng Shui, red was the most favored color of flower but unlike a Chinese or Japanese garden the Victorian garden was often cluttered with every hue of flower. 

 
Flowers were also used to create lucky designs including tarot and planetary symbols, clocks, oriental symbols and eastern symbols.  Herbs would be intricately trained to climb around clipped boxwood trees. Trees were also trained together to create celebratory arches.

 
It was also a sin for a Victorian garden to be bare. Even in the dead of winter, gourds and figs would be growing up the garden wall.

 
Peace Be Still Sam.

Butterflies are truly  magical creatures and even though it is still quite early in the year you might want to figure out what seeds you would like to plant to grow a butterfuly garden.

 
The butterfly garden was a specialty of the Victorian Era and were filled with such butterfly attracting flowers as marigolds, ziinnas, sweet alyssum, baby’s tears, milkweed, passion flower, daisy, lavender, verbena, boneset, clover and thistle.

 
Make sure that any butterfly garden you are planning on created has puddling areas made of sand or mud.

 
Peace Be Still Sam

The Wisdom sector of your garden would be the North East corner. You should also plant flowers and friendly herbs and plants here if you want to do well in school.

 
This sector of the Ba’ gua is governed by the colors gold, yellow and orange so good flowers to plant in this area are sunflowers, tulips, sunflowers, irises, marigold, jasmine, daisies and chrysanthemums.  Wisdom is also symbolized by all grasses, flax, ferns, and bracken.

 
In this area you also might want to plant borage, peppermint, rosemary, thyme, mint, eybright, saffron, caraway, rue and St. John’s Wort. Produce that symbolizes wisdom are onions, celery, grapes and mushrooms.

 
This area is symbolized by small earth on the Feng Shui Ba’Gua so it is a good place to put a stone path or a rock garden.

 
Peace Be Still Sam