Our Favorite Feng Shui Flowers for Spring
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After a long winter, many of us are craving joy and renewal. From a feng shui perspective, one of the simplest ways to bring in these energies is to work with fresh cut flowers. Flowers bring beauty, fragrance, and uplifting life force energy into your home, and they also connect us with the current season. In general, spring flowers represent hope, renewal, and new beginnings.
We’ve put together a list of spring blooms we’d recommend for each room in your home. We hope this inspires you to embrace the season and uplift your home’s qi with the energy of flowers!
Entrance
The foyer or main entrance to your home is very important because it’s the first place that qi enters. You want to set the tone and greet this energy as it comes in. Tulips are wonderful greeters of qi because they are so joyful. They’re also quite abundant and accessible in the spring. Tulips will continue to grow in water, so even flowers that still look green when you bring them home will start to open and develop more color over time. If you want to give this area an extra boost, you can choose red tulips, since the color red is particularly protective and auspicious.
Another flower you can consider for your home’s entrance is primrose. These are also generally quite available, and they are traditionally used in doorways in Celtic tradition. They’re said to be threshold protectors, and they are believed to mark transitions between our world and the fairy realm. Primroses are not usually found as cut flowers, but you can put a potted primrose just inside your front door, or right outside your entrance. You could even choose a red pot to amplify that welcoming entry.
Living room
We recommend fragrant flowers for the living room or common area.. In feng shui, we say that highly fragrant flowers strongly uplift your spirits and shift your personal energy. If you are feeling down and you need a little energy boost, fragrant flowers would be a great choice. We especially love fragrant flowers for living rooms where everyone in the home can enjoy them! A few of our favorite fragrant spring flowers are freesia, hyacinth, and lilac. Freesia is a cheerful flower that is also connected to friendship. If you’d like a potted plant, hyacinth is a great choice. Both of these flowers come in many bright colors. Lilacs, in addition to being beautifully fragrant, are also associated with abundance, prosperity, and elegance because of their purple color. Lilacs are a short-lived cut flower, but they are lovely while they last!
Kitchen
Daffodils and narcissus are connected to the earth element , because of their bright yellow blooms. The earth element is associated with wellbeing with health, and it also has a connection to the stomach and digestion, so it’s nice to bring this element into the area where you are preparing and eating food. Yellow is also a very cheerful, warm, optimistic color. You can find daffodils and narcissus either potted or cut, and either one can be a great addition to your kitchen. If you do get potted flowers, this can be a nice bonus because the soil adds even more earth qi to your space.
Dining room
The dining room is symbolic of abundance and friendship because it’s where you share food and gather with friends. Lilacs would be a great flower to include in the dining room because the color is connected to prosperity. In addition, the many clusters of tiny flowers represent abundance, connection, and gathering.
If you don’t have a dining room but you still want to boost wealth and abundance, place lilacs or any purple spring flower in your wealth corner. You can find your wealth corner by standing in the front door of your home and locating the far left corner. If you are not sure where your wealth corner is, we recommend that you download our free bagua kit to help you find it.
Bedroom
Your bedroom represents you and it's your private space, so bringing flowers into this part of your home can really uplift your energy. There are a few flowers that we think are especially helpful for the bedroom, and one of them is violet. Similar to lilacs, their purple color is connected to abundance. If you choose a more red-toned violet, this is connected to feeling abundant and cultivating wealth in your personal life, while a more blue-toned violet would encourage more inner reflection, spiritual insight, and personal growth. Violets are quite delicate, so another way to work with this energy is to add a potted African violet.
Tulips are also a great choice for the bedroom, and especially pink tulips. Pink is connected to love, self-care, and nurturing yourself, and this can be a beautiful energy to bring into your bedroom. Also, if you’re looking for a romantic partnership or if you’re wanting to nurture your existing partnership, the color pink will support that as well. Ranunculus is another beautiful flower that comes in an array of vibrant colors. Its many layers of petals can represent complexity and depth, and it could be a symbol for you appreciating your own complexity, or appreciating all the complexities in your partner and in your relationship.
Whatever flowers you choose for your bedroom, be sure to change the water often and notice when the flowers start to wilt. This is especially important if your intention is to cultivate self-care or support your partnership, because this is the kind of attention and care you want to bring to these areas of your life.
Bathroom
The bathroom might not be the first place in your home where you think of putting cut flowers, but it’s an important room symbolically. Your bathroom is your sanctuary where you reset, cleanse, purify, and take care of yourself to boost your own energy. In feng shui, the bathroom is also connected to depletion because so much water drains from this area. Water represents resources, so you want to balance all of this water flowing away. A really nice option for the bathroom would be to create a bouquet of greens or ferns. If you go into a flower market or flower shop, you’ll notice they have an array of greens, like asparagus fern, bells of Ireland, and waxflower, which also has tiny blooms. Any of these green leafy plants would make a great addition to the bathroom because the color green represents the wood element. Wood energy helps to balance the draining water energy of the bathroom. If you have natural light, you could instead choose a potted fern or plant.
Office
Siberian irises are early-flowering irises that come in a deep midnight blue. In feng shui, this color is connected to personal growth and self-discovery. This energy can be really helpful in an office or workspace, because you’re likely always developing your skills and figuring out where you’re going next in your career. Siberian iris also has very dramatic, sword-like leaves, which can help protect against negative energy and encourage focus, strength, and clarity. When you’re working at your desk, you’re encountering a lot of energy from other people and places, so it can be nice to have a protective element in your space like a plant with sharp leaves.
If you want to learn more about incorporating plants into your home, be sure to check out our free course all about how to harmonize your home with feng shui plants!