Feng shui is an ancient Chinese art, which involves arranging buildings and items to create balance and harmony, much like you’d seen in the natural world. In your home, you can arrange your furniture and other objects according to this philosophy, including the plants you’ve chosen to care for. Plant Feng Shui is a popular topic as plants bring lots of great energy into any room they’re grown in.
Unfortunately, not everyone knows which plants work best for this practice or where to place them. If you’re interested in trying out some plant feng shui to increase the positive energy in your home, the following information can help get you started.
The Bagua Areas
There are nine Bagua areas in your home, each of which connects a specific space to a certain facet of your life. Adding plants to those areas can improve energy in various ways. For instance, adding a plant in the partnership area can help with your relationships, encouraging kindness and flexibility for a happier home.
Plants in the health space improve your wellbeing and restore any aspect of your life that’s out of balance. You can even help grow or expand your career and make you a wiser person when adding a plant to the career area. Of course, not every plant is beneficial, which is why you need to choose the right ones for these spaces and your home in general.
What to Look for in Feng Shui Plants
Almost every healthy plant is a good addition to feng shui, though some features will ensure positive energy in your home. Plants with rounded leaves are a must to encourage gentle, wholesome energy wherever you place them.
You may also want to pick plants that grow up instead of out or down. These also promote positivity while plants with downward growth contribute to negative emotions like sadness or depression.
Plants with vibrant foliage encourage lively energy while larger plants attract higher levels of energy. Flowering plants even attract love to your home, making them a great option for those looking for more meaningful connections.
What Plants to Avoid
Though most plants improve the energy in your home, some counter this energy, bringing you down. Thorny plants, like cacti, should be avoided since they are believed to attract negative energy. Spiky plants are also not a great option for feng shui and are often associated with shi chi, or sharp energy. Though they may be lovely, fake plants bring dead energy to your home and are often poor choices for plant Feng Shui.
One thing to keep in mind is there aren’t any plants that are necessarily bad for Feng Shui as that tends to go against the goals of it. The examples above are plants that are typically more difficult to use to bring in good energy. You can absolutely have them in your home and still have good Feng Shui, but you’ll need to put more effort into balancing out some of the negative energy they can bring. With cacti, for example, you can bring in some softer energy plants to help negate the sharp energy that cacti give off.
Feng Shui Plants For Your Home
Now that you know what to look for and what to avoid when choosing Feng Shui plants, let’s take a look at some of the most popular choices and why they are so beneficial to any home.
If you want to learn more about any of the plants below we’ll include links in each section to the full article. These will detail more tips on growing the plant indoors, and give you the knowledge to successfully grow these plants.
Jade Plant
The round leaves of the jade plant give it a soft look that can be quite calming. These leaves do more than relax you, though. They are believed to represent good fortune and luck, which is why this lovely species is also called a money plant. This plant is also a quite hardy succulent, so it takes very little effort to keep it healthy and thriving. The best areas of the jade plant are in the money, fame, career, or health spaces.
Money Tree
The money tree got its name from Feng Shui practices, due to its tall stature and braided stem that brings good fortune to your home. It also attracts positive energy and good luck for an abundance of benefits, though you need to place it in the right areas to reap the rewards. The money tree is best situated in the money, fame, or health areas. It is easy to care for, too, requiring only infrequent watering and indirect light to thrive.
Lucky Bamboo
Lucky bamboo grows quickly and needs medium to bright light to be happy. It encourages positive energy and personal growth. The number of stalks in the pot also has specific symbolic meanings. If there are two stalks, they are meant to promote love, while three stalks encourage happiness. The best place for lucky bamboo is in the wealth area to bring good fortune to your home and life.
Rubber Tree
Despite its name, the rubber tree is somewhat small, making it a great addition to homes or apartments with limited space, as long as it can get the light it needs. This plant sports thick, glossy leaves, with purple stripes that give it a unique and striking look. Those leaves also have a gentle curve which can add softness to even the harshest spaces. This plant represents wealth, so it is best placed in this corner of your home. It also promotes happiness and abundance for some extra benefits.
Golden Pothos
Pothos is another plant with soft, rounded leaves that encourage harmony. They are a great option for beginners since they require little maintenance. You can place them wherever you have space for them, even in a neglected corner, since they require little light and infrequent watering to survive.
Another benefit of placing them in forgotten spaces is that pothos will eliminate the dead energy and restore the positive energy in these areas. When placed on balconies or around windows, the climbing vines create a protective shield, preventing hostility from entering your home.
Orchid
Orchids are beautiful plants that add touches of color and serenity anywhere you place them. They promote love, making them a great addition to the relationship areas of your home, especially the relationship corner of your bedroom. Orchids also symbolize fertility, purity, beauty, and perfection. They can increase happiness and promote good relationships among those living in your home.
Be sure to consider the variety when choosing one since the color of the orchid can determine where it should be placed. For instance, blue potted orchids should be placed in the wealth or health areas of the home while red or orange ones are best suited to the fame and reputation space. You can choose either red, orange, yellow, or pink orchids for the relationship area, though it’s best to use two of them to promote love and marriage.
Plant Feng Shui
Feng Shui is all about bringing positive energy into your home, and plants are a wonderful way to do that. While the plants above are all excellent choices, don’t be afraid to try out other plants and see how their energy affects your home. Any plant can bring positive energy into your home, it all depends on how you use it, and how you balance it out with the other aspects of the room you place it in.
