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More about Lucky Bamboo

Nov 17th, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Lucky bamboo plants are easy to grow and fun to own.
TO MAKE THE BAMBOO ‘CURL’
If you’d like your stalks of lucky bamboo to ‘curl’ or grow in spirals, place the plant in a slightly dim area, where there is sunlight coming into the room from one side. (Do not put the plant directly in [...]



Take Care of Your Lucky Bamboo Plant

Nov 11th, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

The instructions for growing any variety of dracaena (including several varieties of ‘lucky bamboo’ plants) are about the same: This is one plant that can be grown hydroponically, meaning without soil. You can stand a stalk in some pebbles, keep the pebbles covered with water, and the plant will grow.
Indirect sunlight is best, but [...]



How to Buy a Lucky Bamboo Plant

Nov 1st, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Featured articles, Home and Garden

Bamboo is considered a lucky plant in feng shui. In Chinese, the words for “prayer” and for “bamboo” sound alike, and some believe that a bamboo plant increases the power of prayer.
The popular “lucky bamboo” plant is technically “dracaena sanderia,” not an actual bamboo plant. It is still considered very lucky in feng shui. [...]