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The art of Feng Shui, originating in China, includes an important aspect of placing charms around specif areas of your environment, be it home or work, in order to bring luck. The charms are believed to bring harmony with natural elements into your life. When you are in harmony with your surroundings you will be free of obstacles, and can utilize your talents to their maximum effect.

Those who follow Feng Shui often use lucky bamboo plants as a lucky charm. Like a bonsai tree, these plants are miniature versions of the bamboo plants that grow in Asia and Africa. These miniature bamboo plants are hydroponic plants, meaning their roots are submerged in water rather than sand.

Lucky bamboo plants are a unique Feng Shui charm as they represent all the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water in it. The wood is represented by the plant. The pot holding the plant represents the element earth. The water that sustains the plant represents the water element. The bamboo plant is placed with a metal coin and a red ribbon is tied around the pot to bring in the remaining metal and fire elements.

By simply adding lucky bamboo throughout your home you can enjoy a variety of benefits such as improved health, a better financial outlook, and more. These benefits will vary in quantity and degree depending on the number of stalks on your bamboo tree. For example: to add happiness to your home simply select a lucky bamboo having three stalks. It's just that easy!

On the other hand, if you want to shower good health for your family, you need to have a five-stalked bamboo plant. However, a word of caution: growing a lucky bamboo plant with four stalks may bring forth bad luck. In Chinese, the number four sounds like death! Anyway, your florist would help you choose the lucky bamboo plant best for you.

The lucky bamboo plant makes a great gift and brings luck to the recipient and to the giver. A local bonsai tree shop can deliver a lucky bamboo plant as a gift for a birthday, anniversary, or just for fun. They do not require much care or water and can live for up to five years. The lucky bamboo plant is an excellent gift giving option for the generous and luck-wanting gift giver.

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When you think about flower delivery, have you ever considered giving a bonsai tree instead of flowers? Bonsai trees are a remarkable gift that can last for many years and are always admired as a source of beauty. These trees can be ordered from your local florist or from many online florists.

The bonsai is not Japanese in origin despite "bonsai" being a Japanese term for "potted plant." The style of miniature trees in containers dates back to an ancient dynasty in China and bonsai is the way the Japanese pronounced the Chinese term for these tiny creations. The Chinese "bonsai" trees became more widespread in Japan and today outside of China they are almost always termed as bonsai.

In Japan, these miniature trees are very popular indoors and out while in the west we think of them as pretty much indoor pot plants. Some are actually more suitable to be outdoors and your gift will normally come with care instructions. A bonsai tree is a regular deciduous tree (one that sheds its leaves in fall or winter) or an evergreen species.

The bonsai tree is created by a combination of pruning, shaping, and root paring to make it have smaller leaves and a tiny size. Bonsai trees are classified as tiny to large, with the tiny trees being one inch or less and the large as big as four feet tall. Most florists will have the small to medium size but may be able to order any size you desire.

It takes many years and lots of special care to create a bonsai tree, which is part of why these make such a special plant gift. The small pot limits the roots and helps to keep it small, while careful pruning also restricts growth. Pruning and root cutting must not be done when the tree is dormant so it is seasonal. Special bonsai tools are also used.

The bonsai tree may also be wired to maintain the shape until the wood grows firm. Wires can then be removed and the shape is established. The bonsai choices are extra nice as a wedding gift, since they symbolize long life and permanence. They also would make a lovely and lasting memorial when there has been a death in the family.

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The Flickr Blog posted last year's (Happy New Year's) best pics of '06.

Unfortunately, no pictures of flowers were included.  In fact, after browsing thru the past year's archives there were very few pictures of flowers in general.

There were plenty of pictures of cats in various amusing and, sometimes tiresome, outfits.

And some amazing photos of nature.

Granted, we have the obligatory pictures of cherry blossoms.  Even better, they have a picture of OTHER people taking pictures of cherry blossoms. (Let that one sink in)

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/03/the_blossom_sho.html 

But we are sorely missing the always photogenic wildflowers, arranged flowers, and wedding pics.

Are the Flickr Blog editor's biased against flowers, or do most photographers simply take boring pictures of them?  

Ah well, let's hope 2007 features nature's most beautiful supermodel…. FLOWERS.

P.S.  There's an awesome picture of an eclipse.   Celestial beauty and magnificence in rarity.

 http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/03/solar_eclipse.html

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