Heh! Heh! Heh! I bought me a Luo Hon Zhong 羅漢松 plant or Buddhist Pine on Monday when I went with my mum to the Flower Garden to look at the Lime plants which were on sale for the Chinese New Year. Kusamaki and Inumaki are the Japanese names for this tree. While, the mother was busy looking at the CNY stuff, the daughter spied some Lucky Money Pine Trees at one corner of the place. The big tree that I am pictured with costs RM 3,000. The smaller ones which are about 5 feet tall cost a few hundred.
Wah! So much to pay for a pine tree. I asked the proprietor if she had a little plantlet that I could buy and she showed me some which were selling for RM15.00. Okay! I could afford that and straight away said “Yes, I’ll take that”. So now Mrs. Cheah has one more plant to tend to in her garden.
For your information, the Buddhist Pine or Podorcarpus Macrophyllus is the current in- trend Feng Shui plant to have. It seems that it is in great demand in Hong Kong and China, sometimes fetching a price of a hundred thousand American dollars for big trees. The Chinese consider it a good luck tree and they believe that planting one in the garden will help to protect the wealth of the occupants. This evergreen tree can grow to a height of 50 feet and is said to be very hardy. Besides being a harbinger of good luck, the plant also acts as a messenger of something bad that might happen, e.g. some form of danger or some obstacles should the leaves drop or the plant dies for no reason. Hmm…I guess we will have to take belief of the harbinger of good fortune and messenger of ill omen with a bit of salt as to me it is just a plant and its popularity as a Feng Shui plant could be the result of some hyped up publicity effort by the businessmen who are the ones who are really laughing their way to the bank.
Wah! So much to pay for a pine tree. I asked the proprietor if she had a little plantlet that I could buy and she showed me some which were selling for RM15.00. Okay! I could afford that and straight away said “Yes, I’ll take that”. So now Mrs. Cheah has one more plant to tend to in her garden.
For your information, the Buddhist Pine or Podorcarpus Macrophyllus is the current in- trend Feng Shui plant to have. It seems that it is in great demand in Hong Kong and China, sometimes fetching a price of a hundred thousand American dollars for big trees. The Chinese consider it a good luck tree and they believe that planting one in the garden will help to protect the wealth of the occupants. This evergreen tree can grow to a height of 50 feet and is said to be very hardy. Besides being a harbinger of good luck, the plant also acts as a messenger of something bad that might happen, e.g. some form of danger or some obstacles should the leaves drop or the plant dies for no reason. Hmm…I guess we will have to take belief of the harbinger of good fortune and messenger of ill omen with a bit of salt as to me it is just a plant and its popularity as a Feng Shui plant could be the result of some hyped up publicity effort by the businessmen who are the ones who are really laughing their way to the bank.
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