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I ran away from teaching to the country to grow veggies. There are also some chooks and a pair of troublesome goats who were so much trouble they had to go! My simple green life isn't always as simple or as green as I'd like...but I keep trying!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Prosperous recycling of the old and repurposed

I retrieved this unique hanging pot from Mum's place the other day where it has been hanging around for a long time.  While I was planting some pretties in it, I realised that it had, originally been some sort of metal light shade.  Someone had, at some distant time, repurposed it by adding the chains. 


Nothing says, Welcome
like some plants at the front door 
and look, not an edible one in sight.



The jade plant is sometimes called the money plant and is often seen at the door of Chinese restaurants.  Feng Shui says that they attract both money and prosperity.  Although I am not that much interested in lots of money, I do like the idea of prosperity. The Legatum Prosperity Index rates countries using 79 variables including health, social capital, safety and security, education and personal freedom...and that is the definition I am going with.

Somebody (I bet you can guess who) has given my jade a number one crew cut.   I bought a new one (see it in the billy) to replace it. However, as I was about to tip the old one out I realised its stems were still green.  

So I have tidied up its fringe, conditioned its roots and given it an encouraging talk...in the hope of recycling it.  

Woo hoo...
maybe double jade plants 
mean double prosperity?

18 comments:

  1. I remembered my Mum telling me to always have a jade plant at the front door many many years ago. Long time before we'd even heard about Feng Shui I think!
    Love your new/old hanging basket!

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  2. I like your hanging planter! I often like to repurpose and then my spouse asks me what in the world I am doing! lol I now think I need a jade plant....

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  3. Never without a jade plant and it hasn't done us any harm since we've been jade plant keepers.When we move to a new place we put our wishes for the place and ourselves on paper in a silk bag and put it under the jade plant when we plant it.I like to think of it as being more about abundance - of love, resources, good will, compassion etc.

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  4. I love your hanging planter. All my jade/money plants die - I wonder what that means? I do have the wealth that matters though - loving family, health and strength.

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  5. That would have been one funky lampshade!
    I saw a tumbledown shed today with a stone chimney, and I thought of you and your kitchen project...

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  6. Hazel I knew there was a reason why I wasn't a millionaire and now I have to cover my house with Jade plants;)

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  7. I've never heard of Jade plants :(

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  8. The hanging planter looks great, lovely and weathered! (You know, you could always tuck a lettuce or two among those pretties!)

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  9. "look, not an edible one in sight". Hope you have told the goats, chooks,possums and snails!

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  10. My superannuation fund's health seems to follow the health of my Jade plant. Reminds me I must give some TLC and fertilizer to my Jade plant!

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  11. Love the hanging metallic pot plant, perfect shape & nicely planted! I'll have to get my hands on a Jade plant! Kelli

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  12. Very creative unique pots especially the hanging one. I forgot about the money plant that we received. Now we should move it near the front door.

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  13. I love the lamp shade basket! Very trendy and deconstructavist!

    I have a door jade too! Mine came with the house but Ollie likes to eat it so its a little stumpy.

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  14. How very feng shui!...careful you don't trip over!! ;)

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  15. oops!! Just had an identity crisis!

    Looks really good actually...much nicer than my half dead (or half alive) cyclamens at the front door.

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  16. I love the old cottees box! Jealous!

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  17. Lovely planter, and I like the menagerie by the door!

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  18. You're right about the "money is not equivalent to prosperity" thing Hazel. Right now, health would be more valuable to me / us than money. The garden is also one of my primary assets. It gives me a lot more pleasure than it is strictly "worth".

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