Can I place bird nest ferns in the home?

[Bless]

Recently a few of my friends started growing Bird Nest Ferns at in their houses when someone spread the word that this plant is good for fengshui, is this true? If so, what sort of good fengshui does it bring and where to put it pls. Thank you.

[Administrator]

Dear Bless,
In general, plants can be divided into two categories:-
1. Plants that are considered `yang' e.g. the characteristic is that their
leaves are `pointed' shape or have thorns eg. cactus and chrysanthenum.
2. Plants that are `yin' eg. leaves that are rounded.
In a recent US NASA study on the effects of plants (natural plants) on the
environment, it was found that plants (infact most plants but they ranked
the plants) are found to be good to be placed indoors and good on the
internal environment.
It is also considered particularly good if the pot is made of clay.
The caution under feng shui is to avoid having too many plants concentrated
particularly at the West side of the house. This includes the South-West
(Devil's backdoor) and
North-East (the Devil's main gate).
I mentioned earlier, that plants are `favourite' cures or enhancers of
Taiwanese Feng Shui Masters/Practioners. They consider it auspicous to place
a plant at the `elusive' "wealth" corner some of us are so eager to
`believe'.
`Moderate' use of plants are thus good in the home not just Bird Nest Ferns
(provided ideally the leaves are of `rounded shape). Therefore, natural
plants like what you mentioned are acceptable. Do avoid having plants with
thorns in the house especially if it is at an auspicous location. (Ideally,
this should coincide with the areas done after using the Flying Star theory
if one has done it). It is still an acceptable practise to place e.g. a
cactus at an `inauspicous' location provided it is not a bedroom.
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Recently a few of my friends started growing Bird Nest Ferns at in their
houses when someone spread the word that this plant is good for fengshui, is
this true? If so, what sort of good fengshui does it bring and where to put
it pls. Thank you.