How to propagate plants with cuttings

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Yay! It’s finally feeling like spring here in NYC. As Earth Day just passed last week on April 22nd, it is perfect time to refresh your indoor plants. You can re-pot them, prune them, and even propagate them. I think the easiest way to share your plants is to propagate with cutting. This works with most plants that have many stems or side branches.

You’ll need a clean knife or plant clippers, and a plant.

These photos are from a Golden Pothos that’s been with me a long time. It was a housewarming present when I moved into my first apartment in NYC. It’s very hearty and probably one of the easiest houseplants to maintain. Remember, plants can bring nature into your home to help create a healing and holistic space for you. Plants are often used as feng shui adjustments.

  • Select a healthy stem to use as your cutting.
  • Locate a node, where a leaf and stem meet. It’s best to cut just below the node.
  • The easiest thing is to place the cutting in a glass of water so it can grow roots. You can also place it back into the original soil or new soil to grow roots. If you want to share with someone, place it in a moist paper towel for easy transport!

Propagating plants with cuttings is easy! Do you have a plant you’d like to share with someone today?

by Anjie Cho

Book Signing for 108 Ways to Create Holistic Spaces

I'll be doing a book signing for my first, newly released book, 108 Ways to Create Holistic Spaces. Come by for your signed copy, some Q&A and refreshments!

Thursday: February 26, 2015

6 pm- 8pm

45 Seventh Avenue (b/w 13th and 14th)

by Anjie Cho

One Good Deed a Day

February 17 is Random Acts of Kindness Day. This day reminds me of one of the first feng shui adjustments my mentor, Rosalie Prinzivalli, taught me. This feng shui adjustment is simply to do one good deed a day.

His Holiness Professor Lin Yun is the founder of BTB Feng Shui. I found that so many of his feng shui adjustments were so simple on the surface, but as you start to work through them they become very powerful. The “One Good Deed A Day” adjustment is just that. Rosalie said Professor taught that when times are difficult, we tend to hold things closer to us in fear. For instance, you get laid off from your job. Then you decide to hold on tighter to the money that you have. But holding tighter can restrict energy flow in your life. Instead of tightening our grip on things, it’s beneficial to open up and do good deeds to get the positive energy flowing. If you put good energy out there, it will surely come back to you.

Rosalie challenged me to do one good deed a day for 27 days. 27 is an auspicious number because it is a multiple of nine, and nine is the most auspicious number in feng shui, representing completion and wholeness. Day one, I thought, “Oh this is going to be easy, I do good things all the time!” But then I started to consider, is it a good deed if I would do it anyway? Does it “count?" Then I started to ponder, "Does this mean I need to donate money? What is a good deed anyway?" 

By day 18… I started to realize something. If I did a good deed with intention and purely to do something nice, then it counted! My go-to good deed was to open doors for people. I would literally run to get the door for anyone. But what happened was by opening doors for others, I was opening doors for myself. What a lovely metaphor! 

So on February 17th, I challenge you to start the feng shui adjustment of “One Good Deed A Day” for 27 days… and see what doors you can open in your life!

by Anjie Cho