Happy New Year, plant friends! Thanks for your patience with our silence during the holiday season. Let’s kick off the new year with a reader photo. Responding to the bound agave photo we posted recently, Phyllis Fong sent in this photo of a plant that’s been tied up much more gently. Why? Well, that has her perplexed… and us too.
The agave “reminded me that when I was in Mexico, I often saw plants with tiny bows around the tips. Have you seen this before? A photo is attached…I wonder what it means,” she wrote.
I am turning to you, loyal readers and urban plant enthusiasts—do you know of any Mexican traditions involving bows and houseplants that might explain this? Or is it simply a popular local decoration?
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It suppose to be a magic protection for the house against greedy envy people thoughts (mal de ojo). But i think only red bows works. And some one tell me that bows make the plant grow healthier and bright green when you got plant like sábila or agave inside the house or the office, far from the sun light.