Feng Shui is an ancient method to help guide good design and decorating choices, and I was very interested to see what I could find out about what Feng Shui principles have to say about plants in the entrance. After much contradictory information, this is what I have learned.
Feng Shui flowers for outside the front door will follow these guidelines:
- Colors need to be appropriate for the compass direction of your front door.
North – blue and white flowers
South – red flowers
East & Southeast – blue flowers
West & Northwest – white and gold flowers
Northeast & Southwest – yellow, pink, and red flowers
2. All plants must be healthy and in good condition to be at your entrance.
3. Plants with fat succulent leaves are positive for good feng shui.
4. There should be no spiky leaves for positive feng shui.
5. Do not have thorny plants at your entrance.
The information I found was very specific placements and recommendations based on North, South, East, and West which I will detail more on below.
NORTH:
If your front door faces North, its element is water. Its colors are black and blue, with a supportive color of white. This makes sense to me as a plant person, the Northern side of your house will be more shaded than the others, making it the best place to use black or dark blue planters. If you place dark colors in a southern location, you are running the risk of heat buildup, cooking the roots of your plants, too hot. Also, the reduced light levels lend themselves to foliage and a great texture contrasts with greens. A great container would include Baby or King Tut cypress, ferns, white caladium, and hellebore.
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Avoid yellows and pink (avoid earth colors due to earth’s destructive nature to water in Feng Shui)
SOUTH:
If your front door faces South, its element is fire and red is the primary color Red is also the color for joy. South’s supporting colors are green from the wood element. Southern exposures would get a lot of full-on sun. There are so many awesome choices here. Most of your favorite flowers and foliage will come in red and work great here. My recommendations include portulaca, (which is also a fat succulent leaf), and ivy geraniums.
Avoid the colors blue and black due to the destructive forces of the water element on fire.
Check out this sign if this entry is near your firepit!
or use this light to balance your entry to support the fire element.
EAST & SOUTHEAST:
If your front door faces South or South-East, its element is Wood. The best feng shui color is green, with supporting colors of blue and black, symbolizing the water element. The wonderfully blue scaevola and lobelia would thrive in these morning sun locations, as would King or Baby Tut cypress and elephant ears.
Avoid whites due to the destructive nature of metal, symbolized by white, on wood.
To enhance your wood element, peek at this bamboo windchime, not like the ones you usually see!.
WEST & NORTHWEST:
West and North-west facing front doors element is metal; making the best colors to use white, silver, and gold. Recommended plants would be white geraniums, silver or gold licorice, and variegated vinca. Remember-west gets the hot, hot direct afternoon sun, plants need to be able to handle the amount of this hot sun they will get, depending on your situation.
T determine how much light you have- so you can choose flowers according to the tags you find in the nursery or garden center, click here to go to a short article on how to determine this easily!
Avoid reds due to the destructive nature of fire, symbolized by red, on metal.
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NORTHEAST & SOUTHWEST:
If your front door faces North-east or South-west, its element is Earth. This makes its best color choices brown, yellow, and pink, supporting color is red. Flowers recommended would be petunias, coleus and pink caladiums for the morning sun of the northeast. For the afternoon heat of the South-west Vinca, Verbena, and Marigolds.
Avoid wood and an overabundance of green due to its destructive forces on the earth element.
To increase the Earth element, you can use stone or pottery elements. Here is a wonderful collection of stones with positive words engraved which you can keep in a red bowl, like this Asian inspired one or this stone frog small feeder bowl like this one, peek at them on Amazon, to increase the stone’s positive effects! I am definitely going to do this!
For a wonderfully casual and unique art piece, look at these stacked rock cairns and this balanced rock piece.
Related Questions:
Feng shui cures for the front door?
There are many feng shui cures for your front door. Click here to go to Amazon for concave and convex mirror cures. Here is a gorgeous pottery cure I bet no one you know will have! Which one you use depends on what direction your front door faces, what challenges your front door has so what you are trying to cure. Cures can be in the form of pictures, statues, colors, and living things, live plants, or fish.
The most important thing is that items are healthy or in good repair and bring you joy. No chipped or tarnished pieces. No struggling, diseased, or dead plants. Whatever you choose must be flourishing and reflecting the positive chi you are encouraging.
