Which Houseplants Are Good to Grow? Feng Shui Placement Matters

Growing plants indoors helps purify the air and beautify the environment. But not all plants are suitable for indoor placement.So which houseplants are better to choose? How should they be placed for good feng shui?

Which houseplants are better to choose?

1. Evergreen sago palm, chrysanthemum, kumquat, pomegranate, four o'clock flower, portulaca, Chinese rose, camellia, orchid tree, daisy, wintersweet, and marigold can absorb harmful gases released by household appliances, plastic products and the like.

2. Rose, osmanthus, violet, jasmine, lemon, multiflora rose, dianthus, lily of the valley, and crape myrtle: the volatile oils produced by these fragrant flowers have a significant sterilizing effect. Plants such as crape myrtle, jasmine and lemon can kill native bacteria such as diphtheria bacteria and dysentery bacteria within 5 minutes. The fragrances given off by plants such as jasmine, multiflora rose, dianthus, lily of the valley, violet, rose and osmanthus have a clear inhibitory effect on the growth and reproduction of tubercle bacillus, pneumococcus and staphylococcus.

3. Snake plant, bowstring hemp, agave, as well as Opuntia, dwarf kalanchoe, striped kalanchoe, thick sedum, and cultivated bromeliads: these plants can purify the air at night. In a 10 sq m room, if there are two pots of such plants, such as bromeliads, they can absorb all the carbon dioxide exhaled by one person during the night.

4. Cactus, epiphyllum, Christmas cactus, night-blooming cereus, and queen of the night: these plants can increase negative ions. When a TV or computer is turned on in a room, negative oxygen ions rapidly decrease. But the stomata on the fleshy stems of these plants close during the day and open at night, releasing oxygen while absorbing carbon dioxide, thereby increasing the concentration of negative ions in the indoor air.

5. Orchid, osmanthus, wintersweet, caladium, and red osmanthus: their cilia can absorb floating particles and smoke dust in the air. Clove, jasmine, rose, violet, field chrysanthemum, and mint: these plants can help people relax and are conducive to sleep.

In addition, plants that are too gaudily bright and eye-catching, have an unusual odor, or have too strong a fragrance are not suitable for indoor placement. For example: oleander, yellow oleander, and datura (thorn apple). These flowers and plants are toxic and harmful to human health. The fragrance of night-blooming jasmine strongly irritates people's sense of smell, and at night it also releases a large amount of waste gas, which is bad for the human body. The stems and leaves of evergreen Chinese arrowhead contain dumb cane enzyme and calcium oxalate; touching the skin causes severe itching, and swallowing it by mistake can also cause poisoning. Other plants, such as tulip, contain toxic alkaloids; mimosa, with frequent contact, can cause hair loss; narcissus, contacting the sap of the leaves and flowers can cause skin redness and swelling.

How should houseplants be placed for good feng shui?

1. In the living room, generally place plants such as podocarpus, cactus, Buddhist pine, schefflera, wax flower, orchid, cyclamen, citrus, bird's nest fern, and dragon tree; in feng shui these are called “auspicious objects” and can symbolize good fortune and bring wealth and blessings. Lucky bamboo, bamboo palm, money tree, and clivia.

2. In the bedroom, it is not recommended to place too many plants, especially foliage plants, because at night such plants compete with people for oxygen. In the kitchen, because there is a lot of cooking fumes, it is not suitable to place plants; if you do, you can choose hydroponic plants, which give a pure and clean feeling.

3. The bathroom has high humidity and large temperature differences between warm and cold, so growing moisture-tolerant ornamental plants can absorb foul air; therefore it is suitable to use ferns, weeping fig, golden pothos and the like. Green plants.

4. If, looking out from the balcony, the surrounding environment is harsh, with nearby sharp corners thrusting at you, a street rushing straight at you, a street curving away like a bow, or facing a temple, hospital, graveyard and so on, then you must place plants that can dissolve sha qi. Unlike plants that generate prosperity, sha-dissolving plants have thorns on their stems or leaves; the thorns can repel external sha qi, making it retreat, and can protect the home. Such sha-dissolving plants include cactus and dragon bone. Rose, rhododendron.

Precautions:

1. The size of placed plants should be moderate

Usually in the home, medium and small plants should predominate, and large plants should not be chosen, so as to avoid creating a sense of pressure in the living room for visual reasons.

2. The number of placed plants should be appropriate

Plants in the living room should first of all aim at decoration, so the number just needs to achieve the decorative purpose and should not be too many; otherwise it will give people a cluttered feeling, and it will also affect the airflow in the living room, causing the living room to have too much yin energy.

3. The placement positions of plants should be appropriate

Plants should be placed so as not to hinder people's movement; when placing them, also pay attention to combining medium and small ones to achieve a well-arranged visual effect.

For example, relatively large plants can be placed at the living room entrance, in hall corners, beside the stairs and other places that do not affect people's activities; small foliage plants can be placed on the coffee table, low cabinet, desk cabinet, at the corner sofa, and so on