Tan Yih Ying, 10, helping out her father Tan Chaik Hong, 49, while introducing some of the lucky bamboo plants in horse-shaped vases as well as pussywillows at the Genting Flora Nursery at Island Glades. STAR PIC BY: ZAINUDIN AHAD/ January 11 2014
GEORGE TOWN: With Chinese New Year just around the corner, plants like lucky bamboo, pussy willow and kumquat are seeing brisk sales as they are highly sought after as decorative items and for feng shui (Chinese geomancy) purposes.
Plant nursery owner Tan Chaik Hong, 49, said the plants could be placed at strategic locations in the house for good omen or simply as decorative items placed in horse-shaped vases to signify the coming Year of the Horse.
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