GMG's Friday Find: Lucky Bamboo for St. Patty's Day!

Costa Farms

What's a cool, lucky plant to give on St. Patty's Day besides the shamrock?...the Lucky Bamboo! 

Interestingly, Lucky Bamboo is actually not a bamboo at all, but rather a Dracaena! It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes and is the primary plant recommended for improving Feng Shui and for creating spaces where you feel safe and more energized to meet the demands of today's high-pressured world. They are very eye-catching and come with an ancient Chinese tradition-- the number of stalks represent distinct meanings and bring specific fortune. 

Costa Farms

• Two Stalks – This commonly represents love, good luck or both.

• Three Stalks – This is meant to bring happiness, wealth, and a long life.

• Five Stalks – This helps with five areas in life; Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Physical, Intuitive.

• Six Stalks – This is a good gift for prosperity and good luck financially.

• Seven Stalks – This is commonly given to help with good health physically and mentally.

• Eight Stalks – This lucky bamboo plant is meant to give a gift of fertility.
• Nine Stalks – This is a general good luck – and a very beautiful plant!
• Ten Stalks – This is given to symbolize peace and contentment for a person.
• Twenty One Stalks – This is the ultimate expression of good luck and fortune that you can give someone. In addition, it is quite beautiful while still being an easy to maintain houseplant.

So, definitely heed these meanings and give your recipient the gift most appropriate.You can find these Lucky Bamboo at home improvement retailers nationwide. For more information and care instructions, head to Costa Farms.com.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 
~Peggy
Garden Media Group

Gardens in the Most Unlikely of Places

Los Angeles residents are being treated to an exotic sight during their daily commutes. The Urban Air project created by artist Stephen Glassman and a collection of partners has turned Los Angeles billboards into bamboo gardens to beautify urban areas and help clean the air by processing the carbon dioxide from the cars below.

Urban Air was first recognized when it received the 2011 London International Creativity award. A Los Angeles based billboard company, Summit Media, has lent their support by donating prominent billboards along major Los Angeles thoroughfares to provide a launch for the first Urban Air prototypes.

Urban Air aims to have many of these billboard gardens all over Los Angeles freeways by the new year. But they don't want to stop there! Pending a successful launch they hope to pursue a greener future by transforming billboards in cities around the globe.

For more information on the Urban Air project visit their kickstarter page!

~ James
Garden Media Group