The Art of Bamboo

About the Book

Lucky Bamboo (Dracaena Sanderiana) is popular as a lucky plant and as a Feng Shui plant because it brings the natural elements of water, fire, earth, wood, and metal into balance within the environment. This plant is very easy to take care of as it only needs water to live. The original form of this plant is the straight form; other forms (curly, spiral, heart, etc.) are made by people (the growers). Other plants which are also referred as a lucky plant or a Feng Shui plant are the Money Tree (Pachira Aquatica) and the Jade plant (Crassula Ovata).

About the Author

Dr. Freddy K. Kurniawan was born in 1943 in Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned his Ph.D. degree (with cum laude) in 1996 from the postgraduate study program of the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2000, the author moved to Canada and since 2001 permanently stays in the province of British Columbia. Almost 10 years, the author studies as an autodidact and practices in the indoor plants, especially the Lucky Bamboo and other lucky plants like the Pachira plant or is sometimes called the Money Tree (Pachira Aquatica) and the Jade plant (Crassula Ovata). From this experience, the author tried to put his knowledge, especially about the Lucky Bamboo and also the Pachira and the Jade plant in this book which he called “The Art of Bamboo – The Lucky Bamboo”.