Curly Chinese Bamboo

Looking for a simple but beautiful addition to an indoor water garden? Curly bamboo is a beautiful plant to enhance an indoor garden display. It’s a house plant that is also said to bring luck to the home.

Curly Bamboo is a Striking Plant for the Indoor Water Garden

Lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) is not actually bamboo, though it looks like a tiny version of the larger plant. It is a plant similar to the corn plant. It is marketed as a bamboo and considered to have the lucky properties of the flexible, open bamboo plant.

An Asian-Inspired Centerpiece for the Table

This curly plant with a striking burst of lush green leaves is a perfect fit for an Asian-inspired table or party. For a party or table centerpiece, purchase many glass containers and a smaller Chinese bamboo for each one. Fill the container with beach glass, colored marbles, or simply polished rocks. These simple but effective displays can also act as placeholders at the table – attach a name on a red card to each glass vase.

Bamboo Brings Luck Into the Home with Feng Shui

The curly bamboo is a strong and vigorous house plant and brings healthy energy to the home. It is also flexible and open inside – a good spiritual teaching to impart to the water gardener.

To bring good luck to the home with indoor bamboo, plant the bamboo in a glass vase with rocks as a base. Add water to the vase and add a red decoration to the plant, such as a red bird or a beautiful ribbon. This will ensure that the bamboo contains all of the elements of feng shui: wood, earth, water, metal and fire. The red ribbon represents fire, while the glass is considered metal.

Lucky bamboo comes with a certain number of stalks to bring certain types of luck into the home. Three stalks is for happiness, five for health, and nine is a powerful, general good luck charm. It is possible to purchase containers made specifically for lucky bamboo, with slots to accommodate a specific lucky number of bamboo plants.

Caring for Lucky Chinese Bamboo

Lucky Chinese bamboo is not so lucky if it is neglected by its owner. Like any indoor water garden that is not aerated, a display containing curly bamboo needs to have its water changed at least once a week so that the bamboo does not rot. The roots of the bamboo tend to creep down through the rocks, so try not to disturb these when changing the water. Keep the water at about the same level as the stones. Bamboo likes indirect light, so it is a good house plant for a bright room, but not in a window that receives direct sunlight.

Water gardeners who want to bring water plants indoors would do well to begin with lucky bamboo. It is a beautiful plant that requires little care and it can be a simple, striking centerpiece at any table.