These bamboo cuttings form straight lines before the shoots sprout from them.
During Chinese New Year, Farmers train the bamboo to grow in a spiral and call them lucky bamboo.
This plant is also known as the Goddess of Mercy plant. Worshipers of Goddess of mercy will have a vase of this plant to worship her.
I just like plants.
In Singapore, I experimented with this plant, I cut about two feet long stems of this plant, I had about twenty of them, and grew them in a vase in side my house. Soon shoots grew, and this is the result. There was no need to fertilise the plant.
As it was dengue infestation time, I had to cover the vase with netting to prevent the aedes mosquitoes from laying eggs in the still water. Dengue fever was very serious, and I as the secretary of the gardening club had to set examples of keeping our plants stagnant water free. In NTU, they regularly fogged the campus.
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Jan 31: Leading Lines - follow the lines, straight or curved, Where do they lead?
I am linking my blog post for Heather, whose son was murdered. They are trying to get a bill to pass Cameron's law to make eye witnesses to be responsible.
http://annkitsuetchin.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/support-bill-for-camerons-law.html
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