How To Choose Feng Shui Plants For Garden?

Gardening

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By Anwesha Barari

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 12:35

Feng Shui plants are not restricted for your home decoration. You could have a whole Feng Shui garden full of plants that will bring positive energy into your home. Lucky plants are not really about vague believes about how a money plant brings wealth or a Basil plant is holy. That is more based in myth and religious believes than solidly grounded in logic. Feng Shui plants on the other hand have the science of energies behind them.

As you know Feng Shui has five basic kinds energy that comes from the five elements of energy.

1. Wood : For wealth

2. Water : For determination and focus

3. Earth: For stability

4. Fire: For good cheer and happiness

5. Metal: For strength and resilience

That is why the lucky bamboo plant so frequently seen in homes these days is a perfect example of a Feng Shui plants. It has the power of water from the water it grows in, fire symbolized by the red ribbon, earth from the rocks at its base, metal from the glass container it grows in and earth from its own stems.

Feng Shui Garden Based On Types Of Energy

In Chinese Feng Shui, every plant stands for a kind of energy. Here are some Feng Shui tips for you to know which plants bring what kind of energy into your home.

1. Metal in the Money Plant: This plant is commonly considered a lucky plant as it is supposed to bring wealth. It represents not money but metal in Feng Shui. The beautiful leaves of the money plant that resemble coins are very good for the 'metal" element. Money plants usually grow in water so they bring in the positivity of water too.

2. Wood in Jasmine: The element of wood in Feng Shui plants stands for property and prosperity. Jasmine as such represents friendship. All the wood based plants in your garden will influence the amassing of property in your life. Jasmine trees grow huge and don"t need too much caring for once they are fully grown. They are intoxicatingly fragrant.

3. Water in Water Lilies: The divine flower stands for purity and in the mythology of Western civilizations, virginity; it is the flower traditionally carried by the bride. In the science of the ancient Chinese it is attributed the power to give your life a direction. Water is always flowing in a direction, never haphazard and always in a hurry to reach its goal.

4. Earth in Delphinium: Earth is an element for stability and solid consolidation. Delphinium is a beautiful English flower, usually bluish purple in colour that gives your home this energy for solidity and permanence.

5. Fire in Sunflower: This element is for laughter and beauty in life. The sunflower with its affinity to the biggest ball of fire in the universe is perfect for this energy.

These garden tips will help you create a garden based on Feng Shui.