Do You have a Money Tree?
We all wish we had a money tree. How handy it would be.
You can grow your own money tree. They are very easy to grow but, alas, you cannot use their leaves to buy things.
The Money Tree is only one of the names given to this lovely plant, Crassula ovata. It is known by many other names:
You can grow your own money tree. They are very easy to grow but, alas, you cannot use their leaves to buy things.
The Money Tree is only one of the names given to this lovely plant, Crassula ovata. It is known by many other names:
- Jade Plant
- Friendship tree
- Lucky Plant
- Dollar plant
Crassula ovata, Money Plant, Jade Tree
The Chinese people use this plant in Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a system of energy that the Chinese people have worked out over thousands of years. It is beneficial to the energy of a place to have buildings facing a certain way, items in a house placed in certain positions in a room etc.
It is thought that there should be a Jade plant or Money tree at the front door of every home to make prosperity flow into a house.
The Money plant or Jade tree makes a great bonsai plant. A bonsai plant is kept to under one metre tall (3 feet). It is kept in a small flat pot to restrict its root system. It looks like a miniature plant.
I have a plant also called a Jade tree that my Mum started about 35 years ago. It has gone through dry times when it became stunted and thin, and well watered times when it looks luscious and green. You know how it is, people don't always know the correct name for their plant. It turns out the one I have is Crassula Portulacaria, also called Baby Jade or Elephant's Food or Elephant Bush. Apparently elephants liked to nibble on the tips of it. Of course it grew a lot bigger in its native Africa out in the wild.
It is thought that there should be a Jade plant or Money tree at the front door of every home to make prosperity flow into a house.
The Money plant or Jade tree makes a great bonsai plant. A bonsai plant is kept to under one metre tall (3 feet). It is kept in a small flat pot to restrict its root system. It looks like a miniature plant.
I have a plant also called a Jade tree that my Mum started about 35 years ago. It has gone through dry times when it became stunted and thin, and well watered times when it looks luscious and green. You know how it is, people don't always know the correct name for their plant. It turns out the one I have is Crassula Portulacaria, also called Baby Jade or Elephant's Food or Elephant Bush. Apparently elephants liked to nibble on the tips of it. Of course it grew a lot bigger in its native Africa out in the wild.
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