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10 Lucky Plants for 2023
It is time to start again, a fresh beginning with new chances and the opportunity to turn over a new leaf. Bring a little positivity into your home with these green, auspicious plants. With all the love in our hearts, we wish our readers a Beautiful, Wonderful, Happy and Lucky New Year.
Snake Plant
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Sansevieria trifasciata
Sage Salvia officinalis
One of the best indoor plants to keep negative energies away. It earns its “good luck” stripes by keeping bad influences away. As the herb of immortality, domestic virtue, health, and wisdom it was one of the sacred ceremonial herb of the Romans.
Burning its holy leaves cleanses a space or environment of negative energy, to generate wisdom and clarity, and to promote healing. Keep your sage happy by watering regularly, but avoid overwatering as sage hates wet roots. Prune after flowering to maintain an attractive shape and encourage lots of new growth.
This plant is among those good luck plants that promote positivity. The reason is that Snake plants absorb harmful gases from the air and absorb toxins from your surroundings. They purify the air inside your home. When you have a clean and green environment, you get a better focus at your work, so you tend to be more productive.
According to Feng Shui teachings, they are the perfect plant to attract money, prosperity, and good energy. The plant is thought to give off a strong protective energy and shield the home from negative chi energy.
Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioides
Pilea peperomioides symbolises the wish for financial stability and wealth.
It was originally believed to bring good luck, money and fortune to its owner. Because the large, circular leaves stack on top of each other, they look like coins. This is where the idea of money comes from. This little plant does more than just look amazing, it could actually bring you good fortune too!
Your Pilea prefers bright to medium indirect light. It can tolerate low light, but it may become leggy and dull. Avoid extended exposure to direct sunlight, which can scorch its leaves. It likes to be watered once a week.
Orchids Phalaenopsis orchids
One of the most beautiful lucky plants are also known as ice cube orchids. They need just three ice cubes a week for watering! These orchids need humid and warm conditions. They don’t like to be overwatered. Put your orchid in a shady spot with bright light for best results. They will flower for months and, with a bit of luck, will also re-flower.
The orchid was a popular plant in ancient Japan and was considered a symbol of wealth by the royalty. Plants were kept in temples and often painted on scrolls. The orchid is believed to bring good luck and prosperity to your home. Orchids are also thought to bring love and good fortune to you. It is believed that they help you find a good life partner. In feng shui, orchids symbolise good relationships, happiness, and better fertility.
Arrowhead Plant Syngonium podophyllum
Has a distinctive leaf, which changes from the typical arrow shaped form to one with five lobes as it matures.
The five lobes represent the five elements: water, fire, earth, wood and metal. This gives it the perfect balance of Yin Yang. The plant is also thought to cleanse the air, as so many lucky plants do. Place an arrowhead plant on a desk to bring thoughts of new ideas and to provide inspiration. Keep this plant happy by providing it with bright indirect light.
Braided Money Plant
Pachira aquatica
This tree often comes as a group of five trees braided or twisted together. To maintain the shape or to guide the trunks into a braid yourself. The braid is thought to attract wealth and good luck. It is also thought of as an air purifier.
Money trees prefer bright, indirect light and moderate-tohigh humidity. Direct sunlight can lead to leaf scorching, but the plants can do relatively well in low light. Exposure to too many drafts, though, may cause leaf loss. Heater vents and hot, dry air also need to be avoided.
Golden Pothos Epipremnum aureum
According to feng shui, the heart-shaped glossy leaves of golden pothos attract wealth, it brings luck and happiness.
This lovely plant is thought to bring wealth, prosperity, good health and good fortune to your home or office. The plants are also believed to maintain purity in the air.
Place in a southeast area of your home. Scientists say that keeping a plant near a computer, TV or WiFi router will absorb radiation that they emit.
Give this money plant bright, indirect light and be careful of too much sunlight.
Jade Plant Crassula ovata
There are many succulent plants that are also considered lucky plants to keep in the home. Jade plant, or crassula ovata is one of them. This succulent is also known as lucky plant, dollar plant, and money tree. The small round leaves of the plant look like coins. This is a very popular, and easy to care for house plant. It is thought to bring wealth and good fortune to its owners. People often give it as a housewarming gift for this reason. One tricky part of growing a jade plant indoors is that they really do like a lot of sunlight. Give them the sunniest window you can.
Rubber Plant
Ficus elastica
Are thought to attract abundance, good fortune and wealth. The round leaves are said to symbolise money and prosperity
According to the teachings of Feng Shui, the rubber plant's round leaves make it an ideal candidate to be placed in a corner in order to soften the sharp angles. The wealth corner of the home is particularly suitable. Also, the rubber plant improves indoor air, as it is a natural air purifier the indoor variety can be kept at a moderate size by keeping it slightly pot bound and with careful pruning. Indirect light is best for plants grown inside.
Lucky Bamboo
Dracaena sanderiana
This household plant is easy to care for and grows well in indirect sunlight. Many think it’s a real bamboo plant. But it is a type of tropical water lily. The lucky bamboo plant is one of the most popular Feng Shui plants, said to bring good luck and prosperity to the place where it is grown. It is also known to enhance the flow of positive energy in the home and office when placed in the right direction. The lucky bamboo plant represents the element wood and the red ribbon tied around it represents the element fire. It is known to create a sense of balance and safety in life.
Most people growing lucky bamboo indoors will also have their lucky bamboo growing in water. If your lucky bamboo is growing in water, make sure to change the water every two to four weeks.