Top 3 Feng Shui Houseplants

August 13th, 2010

Houseplants are the “lungs” of your home, and having indoor plants is not only pleasing but also very important for a harmonic home interior.

Generally all plants emit a positive energy as they purify the air inside and bring good chi to your home, but some of them have some specific value and symbolic meaning from the Feng Shui viewpoint.

1. Money Tree: The money tree, whose botanical name is Pachira Aquatica, is used in Feng Shui home interior ideas to produce positive energy. People grow it at home to attract wealth and prosperity. It should be placed in northwestern corner of the home or near a place where money is kept.

The money tree’s leaves stand for the five main elements of the Feng Shui practice — wood, water, earth, fire and metal — which make the Feng Shui money tree so symbolic. Money trees bring harmony to those homes where one of these elements is missing.

Its care requires a total amount of sunlight and water; however, over-watering can damage its roots.

2. Peace Lily: On one hand this lovely plant helps make an aesthetically valuable home interior decor. On the other hand, it has strong, peaceful energy. Placing it near electronics will soften the radiation and electromagnetic influence that they have on people and will bring balance between people’s bodies and energy fields.

The peace lily deals with home energy perfectly. The walls of each house keep the energetic imprint of the past, which from time to time affects the present energy. This Feng Shui plant releases this unnatural presence of the past, bringing a sense of peace and harmony into your house.

Peace lilies with their dark green leaves and pure white flowers can make your home interior fantastically beautiful, especially if the colors of the plant harmonize with your home interior colors.

It doesn’t like direct sunlight and needs a little amount of water. This plant is quite popular, easy to care for and widely available.

3. Lucky Bamboo — The botanical name is Dracaena. According to Feng Shui, it brings good fortune both to those who keep it and to the immediate environment.

This plant brings lively chi energy and is considered lucky because of its peaceful vitality, strong growth and positive energy. It teaches how to be flexible enough to open your inner world and let the chi go inside and heal your being.

Lucky Bamboos are ideal home interior gifts for your friends, relatives and, of course, your family members.

It can grow in any place and under any lighting condition. The plant needs to always feel your love and attention. In Feng Shui the specific number of bamboo stalks symbolize the domain of luck you want: three for happiness, five for health, two for love and marriage, eight for wealth and abundance, and nine for good fortune. The dramatic arrangements of twenty-one stalks are given for a very powerful blessing.

This strong, tolerant plant prefers indirect sunlight, clean and fresh water and 65-95 F temperature.

So, these were my top 3 Feng Shui houseplants, all of which will bring color, peace and life to your home interior.

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