What is the symbolism of lucky bamboo? What shapes can it be trained into and how do you care for it?

Lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) is an extremely ornamental plant. Flower lovers who like bamboo will surely have lucky bamboo growing at home, but what exactly does lucky bamboo symbolize, and which shapes of lucky bamboo look better?

1. The symbolism of lucky bamboo

Just from the name lucky bamboo, you can tell that it stands for festivity and the wish for family reunion and happiness. In feng shui, lucky bamboo represents the hope that your family members or you yourself will have a flourishing official career or academic success. If you have a child at home preparing for the college entrance exam, you might as well buy some lucky bamboo at the flower market to boost your child's fortune.

2. The shapes of lucky bamboo

(1) Bottle shape

If you want your lucky bamboo to look better, the simplest shape is just to stick the lucky bamboo straight into a bottle. To make this shape, you only need to cut the stem end to about 15 cm, insert the lucky bamboo into a vase, and put just a few centimeters of water in the vase. Normally you only need to place the lucky bamboo in a ventilated spot, and during this time the lucky bamboo can stay green for several days.

(2) Pagoda shape

Flower lovers who have grown lucky bamboo all know that lucky bamboo has extremely tenacious vitality and particularly strong reproductive capacity, so based on these characteristics you can create a shape that is unique to lucky bamboo. You can cut many stem sections of different lengths, but the upper end of each stem section should keep a bud eye, which allows the lucky bamboo to keep growing. With these characteristics, you can train the lucky bamboo into a pagoda shape. Friends who like it might as well give it a try.

(3) Cage shape

Making use of the flexibility of lucky bamboo, you can also train it into a cage shape. You can weave it into the shape of a cage. After it is finished, you do not need to prune the lucky bamboo; just give it sunlight and water every day and let the lucky bamboo grow freely. Once this shape is completed, placing it in the living room is also quite an elegant thing to do.

(4) Feng shui wheel shape

When some vendors create shapes for lucky bamboo, they make use of its phototropic growth so that the lucky bamboo grows at an angle, and then create a wheel shape, which is how we see that kind of lucky bamboo sold on the market. In fact, this shape is called the feng shui wheel shape, and everyone knows its meaning: the wish for better feng shui at home.

Flower lovers, do you know any other shapes that lucky bamboo can be made into? And besides what I have mentioned, what other symbolism does lucky bamboo have? Flower lovers are welcome to come and discuss it with me.