Improve Your Life With Plants

Arrange your houseplants according to the principles of feng shui and you’ll bring good fortune into your life. How you decorate your house (including how you arrange your houseplants) can affect your fortune, according to feng shui, a traditional Chinese belief system and decorating philosophy. To ensure good fortune, place your plants with these tips in mind.

For luck: Place any red flowering plant to the left of the front entryway (as you look at it with your back to the street). Red is considered the luckiest color in feng shui.

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Gardening: 4 Steps To Greener Grass

THE PERFECTLY MANICURED lawn–every homeowner’s dream–is too often pursued to the detriment of the environment with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and gas–powered mowers. For a four–step plan to green your lawn without hurting the ecosystem, we consulted landscaping expert Paul Tukey, author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual (Storey, 2007) and founder of safelawns.org. Here are his secrets:

1. USE AN ELECTRIC OR HAND–POWERED MOWER
An electric mower like Black & Decker�s Cordless Mulching Mower ($398; blackanddecker .com) is about 97 percent cleaner than gas. (According to the EPA, a gas–powered mower emits as much pollution in one hour as driving a car for 100 miles.)
A hand–powered machine,
which uses no energy (except the calories you burn), is best for grass shorter than three inches or lawns smaller than 8,000 square feet.

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