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Lucky Bamboo From Feng shui

           Shahlas Binth T

   According to ancient Asian legend, living bamboo brings good fortune, hence the name lucky bamboo. It has been used for 5,000 years in the practice of Feng Shui. The name lucky seems to have been given by the Chinese that practice feng shui and believe in this plant brings good fortune into a home or workplace. These plants are symbolic of happiness and prosperity, the number of sticks used gives significance to the arrangement. These bamboos when kept in the south east corner of house improve our wealth, luck and when kept in the eastern sector improves our health.

It teaches how to be open and flexible on the inside, so that the spirit can flow freely and heal your being. It is not really a bamboo but a member of Dracena family, Dracaena sanderiana (a type of tropical house plant). It is said that lucky bamboo will give you the best of it is luck when you receive this plant as a gift, and the type of luck you will receive depend on the number of bamboo stalks you use. Two bamboo stalks represents a couple, there for this lucky bamboo represents luck in love. Three bamboo stalks will bring happiness, longevity and wealth. Four bamboo stalks bring creativity and successful academic achievement. Six bamboo stalks bring luck and prosperity. Seven bamboo stalks bring good health. Eight stalks of bamboo symbolize growth. Ten stalks of bamboo represent perfection and completeness. Twenty one bamboo stalks will offer an all purpose blessing that is very powerful.

Tips for caring for lucky bamboo:

           Lucky bamboo is a very low maintenance plant. It can make a great office or house plant as it prefers an indoor, low light environment away from direct sunlight. Lucky bamboo does not need soil or fertilizer to grow. In fact it will be just fine in distilled or purified water, simply place the plant in about one inch of distilled or purified water. Because Lucky bamboo is a long lived plant, even bottled water can create a buildup of salt or minerals in the plant container which can be harmful to the bamboo.

Give a bamboo gift:

         Many people give this kind of plant for house warming gifts, birthday, anniversaries, grand openings, award, achievements and other auspicious occasions. Receiving this plant as a gift increases your luck. Choose an elaborate woven lattice design or an arrangement of individual stalks tied together with red ribbon.