The Best Place To Grow Your Snake Plant Indoors (Feng Shui Approved)

If you're looking for the best place to put one particular houseplant indoors, why not get inspired by feng shui? The ancient Chinese practice aims to harness life energy and help it properly flow through your home. According to feng shui, the best place for your snake plant (Dracaena trifasciata) might be near a window or door.

Feng shui is all about being mindful of where you put furniture, plants, and home accessories, so there's a better flow of good energy through your home instead of negative energy. Where you put certain items in a room depends on what purpose the room serves. You might want a bedroom to feel calm or a kitchen to feel energetic, for example. 

Plants can play an essential role in the feng shui energy signature of a room. Certain varieties can even be considered fortuitous, such as lucky bamboo. Feng shui gives a nod to the five traditional elements of wood, earth, fire, water, and metal, andplants in general fall into the wood element category.They're supposed to help you make progress towards achieving dreams or goals. If growing wealthier is one of your goals, then try putting the snake plant near a door or window in the southeast corner of your home, which represents wealth.

In addition to helping you achieve milestones, the spiky, tall foliage of the snake plant might also protect your room from negative energy. Try setting the plant near windows or on either side of an entrance. A smaller plant might do well on a windowsill. For larger, more mature plants, set them up as a kind of sentry near entrances or exits to a room to possibly prevent negative energy from sneaking in. Don't forget, if you want more of that protective energy, give your snake plant the right amount of light, the natural boost snake plants need to grow big and tall. 

It's actually true that snake plants, in general, don't need a whole bunch of direct sun. They're one of the houseplants you can grow without a ton of natural light. This makes it easier to set them near an entrance to a room, where you might want a little spiky energy protection, but perhaps there's not a whole lot of direct sunlight. 

You might find you want several snake plants to boost energy in the room. If so, just keep in mind that feng shui associates odd and even numbers with different kinds of energy. Odd numbers tend to be dynamic, with lots of energy and movement, while even numbers will give you more of a sense of calm and reflection.