Feng Shui and landscaping. Many think of feng shui and plants - be they shrubbery trees or landscaping only for "Outdoors". Not so. Feng Shui practices and precepts often involve the beauty of, value and indeed the positive role of plants both inside your home, office or abode as well as outside in your finely landscaped and Feng Shui tuned yard and its environments.
It has been often said and noted well by interior designers - be they for home d�cor or the office or hotel trades that plants can well fill spaces where qi seems to be absent, or indeed the qi is lacking in either quality or quantity. Similarly in areas of rooms and buildings where sharp corners come to play in rooms as well as hallways the secret areas of sha qi may necessitate planning to fill in those places with most vital qi. It is not always so easy and simple to fill a room with indoor plants in efforts to remedy these situations. Wrongly or poorly placed or centered indoor plants can even serve to make mattes worse by actually slowing qi and the travels and movements of that qi down to a slow crawl of flow.
It is important to choose what works well for your immediate local areas. Follow your heart, internal guidelines as well as cultural traditions when it comes to indoor plants. You may well have been brought up in a rural upbringing where the rules and standbys where plants and animals where for "outside , whereas someone brought up in the "city" may feel that plants and floral arrangements are just fine and that dogs and cats in the home make for wonderful pets and companions.
Overall though there are some basic considerations when it comes to choosing indoor plants. First of all a healthy plant is the best choice not a sick one, are the best choice overall. Even if you feel sorry for the living plant and feel that you can "nurse' it back to health, resist the temptation. Choose the health plant for your home. A flourishing, vibrant plant will improve your Feng Shui. A sick plant or even a plant that is not in the best of health may not. True though what is considered a lucky choice by some cultures - and indeed some gamblers, many are considered unlucky by others.
Feng Shui plants vary from region to region , however there are some plants that traditionally are considered to create harmony overall.
Among the best choices are - the Impala Lily, the "Money" plant, Cacti, "Chili" plants, Plum Blossoms and lastly indoor plants that have red yellow or orange flowers.
The "Impala Lily" (Advenium obesum) is also called the "flower of wealth and prosperity". The Impala Lily plant is well placed in your living room or room near the front of a shop, business or even hotel lobby. Next in line the "Money Plant" (Dracaena), which is a plant of the evergreen family which has a well deserved reputation of bringing wealth and long life to the inhabitants of those spaces in which it is placed to grow and prosper. Hence choose and place these Money Plants in offices and studies. Cacti and various Cacti like succulent plants can be used for their powers of warding off evil spirits and the like. Not only that, but mean people seem to have the habit of touching Cacti unnecessarily and being pricked by their prickly sharp spines. Perhaps these types will decide not to come back and visit you in the future. It could be a lesson well learned. The Chili Plant symbolizes growth and wealth and as the Chinese New Year approaches the Chinese often bring plum blossoms themselves into their homes because these bright lovely blossoms represents growth and renewal - which we need all the time all year long. Lastly indoor plants with red, yellow and orange flowers will add bright yang colors to a yin room.
Feng Shui.
Autor: Morris E. Brown
Morris E. Brown
Winnipeg Hospital Hotel
University Manitoba Hotel
Added: May 25, 2009
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