Before you begin your plan for planting
your Angel Garden Grotto or Flower Bed, you can learn more about
flowers and their spiritual and emotional meanings. visit
our Flowers and Their Meanings page.
You will easily find several flowers to
grow in youir gardens to honor and attract angels, and combine those
with their nature counterparts in the garden - fairies and woods
spirits, who are co-habitate gardens, according to Garden
Folklore..
An Angel Garden is not a specific
garden design. Designs are unique and personal to the keeper of the
garden. And it's not a New Age or Metaphysical "Thing". I
tire of hearing that.
The Angel Garden is similar in its intent and planning to designing
Meditation Gardens and Zen
Gardens. The concept is the same - a safe
refuge to escape things that are stifling your individuality or
creativity, or messing with your inner harmony. A place to try to
reason it all out and deal with it after thoughtful reflection and/or
medittion. Angels are described in the Bible, in human visitation
stories and in folklore as beautiful and pure beings, and they represent
healing, comfort, guidance and protection.
It's really about nurturing and growing very
fragrant and beautiful flowers, and using angel statuary and Nature's
symbolism to create a peaceful refuge for yourself
for when things get tough. Symbolism to help you focus. If you
already make use of altars indoors for meditation and prayer, the
concept's the same, except you need to do nothing but absorb the
goodness and quiet of your protected outdoor environment, and be open
to messages that might lead you to an answer.
It can be a small place you visit in
the garden that uplifts you daily, or it can be a place you visit only
to mourn and heal. If you choose the right items to inhabit the
garden, you will find it to be a very nice place to unwind, slow down,
and listen to your heart daily. The decor has to be personal to you,
the style and types of decorative items have to suit your personality
and the feeling you want to evoke and leave with.
In almost all of my design plants, the
first step is that garden bench, tucked away somewhere, and then get
down to the gardening part. You can do all types of plants in pots or
containers, or raised beds, or hidden secret garden areas that only
you know are there. By personalized, i mean that you can use cherubs
or adult angels, and symbolism important and personal to you. I'm not
a cherub type. But i have a couple in a different area of the garden.
I don't want the ultra-religious message, but i do want a spiritual
and healing message. You'll know it when you see it - the perfect
plantings and pieces for all areas of your garden. The Angel Garden
would be full of flowers.. Mostly perennial plants and a shrub or two,
but no trees unless they're grown in pots as a frame around the
garden. Small and medium-sized perennial and bulbs that bloom on a
rotating basis are perfect. And so are wildflowers.
Plant flowers and small, creeping
plants like delicate ivy and flowering sages that grow in your region,
and grow some flowers that have "Angel" as part of their
common or variety names.
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