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Quartz crystals are often used in a garden grid to help with the growth and health of plants. One common way this is done is to place quartz crystals at each corner of your garden plot and one in the center. You can divide a large area into smaller square segments and grid each section separately. Embed single point crystals in the soil with the point of the crystal just above the soil level. Boji stones are sometimes placed in gardens and allowed to disintegrate into the soil. Many of the standard soil amendments that garden books suggest are minerals, shells and stones .

All crystal work begins with cleared and charged stones. Use meditation and intention and ask the crystals to work with the deva of the garden and plants for maximum good.
You can even place a quartz point in the soil at the foot of a single plant. You may like to get some quartz crystal chips and just scatter them on the soil for sparkle .You may even find that this glitter confuses some predatory insects.

Small river pebbles and stones can be used to provide an energetic boost for your garden plants and as a rule they bring in a very calming and tranquil energy to the garden area as a whole. They can be used as a decorative element and in quantity even can work as a mulch or ground cover of sorts. You can make symbolic stone beds for streams to invite the water energy into your garden. You can include stones as part of a real water element, Perhaps a small pond, or a bird bath. Place a piece of black plastic along a slightly hollow area and cover it with a pattern of flat and round stones with some spaces. This should just be deep enough to retain a slight amount of moisture after you water the garden. This creates a place for thirsty butterflies to rest and drink. You can make a small circle of stones for a real or symbolic hearth or fire circle for the element of fire and wind chimes will invite the air element to bless your garden. Many different forms of ritual space, altars and meditation areas can be defined and created with well placed stones.

You may want to place guardian stones at your entries. These can either be small and hidden or larger stones that define the entryway . A well chosen stone can fill in a missing area of your home's Fung shui too.
You may want to hang a few crystals from a tree to catch the light. Do be careful of potential fire hazards when placing the crystals. Nice wind chimes are sometimes made with slices of agate or obsidian needles. These can have a lovely bell like tone.

If you have a sloping area in your yard or a place to build your own small mound of stones and soil you might want to make a classic rock garden. These rocky slopes with plants set among stones can be pleasing to all the senses. Depending on your climate alpine flowers, herbs or succulents are popular choices for a rock garden.

If you have a yard where you can see the point where the Sun rises on an Equinox or Solstice you could mark that point with a stone as a way of honoring the cycle of the year. There are several web sites where you can find directions for making Native American medicine wheels with the correct spirit and dedication if they are part of your spiritual path.

There are other forms of stone wheel that can make a meaningful part of your garden. The Buddhist Wheel of the Law or a zodiac garden wheel are among the possibilities. Some of the forms suggested in the page on crystal grids can make suitable garden features. If you have a lot of small boulders available you can make stone borders or even paths and walls.

The classical Zen Garden of raked sand and carefully placed stones may require more esoteric wisdom than most of us have at hand but begin by entering into a meditation in your garden and seeking the guidance of the land the deva and the energies. You may be guided to create a stone garden that maximizes the energies and harmonies of the land.

Stone Medicine Wheels, stone calendars or star maps, Zen meditation gardens and large rock gardens may be beyond the practical scope for most of us, but even a few stones in the garden can bring in great healing energies and can create a pleasant and magical place of rest .

If you do not have a yard or have only a small garden you still might enjoy some of the pleasures by making a miniature stone garden in a container. You could then keep this in what garden you do have or even keep it indoors. You choose a container suitable for your garden and fill it with an appropriate soil less mix or other base and then place small stones, crystals, pebbles, and possibly mosses, sticks and plants in a pleasing pattern to create a tiny garden of your dreams. Some people use these small gardens as meditation sanctuaries using their imagination to visualize themselves inside the garden to meditate and begin and end journeys.

Peggy Jentoft 

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