Friday, July 2, 2010

Spotted in Iowa City: Dracaena




Posted by mr_subjunctive at 2:30 AM
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11 comments:

Ginny Burton said...

Jenny Craig is the formerly-fat sister of Janet. She needs low light in order not to be able to find her way to the cookie jar.

July 2, 2010 at 2:46 AM
Anonymous said...

Plant has two cultivar names. o.0
Not necessarily mutually incompatible, but... eh?

July 2, 2010 at 7:52 AM
Karen715 said...

Well, the price depends on the size of the plant. If this is a good-sized plant, $34 could be justified. But everything else is clearly wrong.

'Lime Edge' looks like it might be pretty. But what I am looking for, and can never find, is a good, deep green, unscarred, healthy-looking, plain old 'Janet Craig'. I know they exist; I saw one, once.

July 2, 2010 at 7:58 AM
Andrew said...

Agree with Karen on the size of the plant - have seen massive Dracaenas sell for $220 (4 cane, at least 6' tall, 5 gallon/maybe 14" pot). That said you should be able to find a decent sized 10" plant for as little as $20 which is the most I would pay.

Otherwise all of the above?

Looks like a nice cultivar though, and fairly healthy (from the picture).

July 2, 2010 at 8:10 AM
Nancy in Sun Lakes AZ said...

Definitely all of the above!

July 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM
Liza said...

You are one funny cookie, mr_s! Jenny Craig, hahaha!

July 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Megan said...

That's hilarious!

July 2, 2010 at 9:57 AM
Pat said...

What colour are American limes? They are usually deep green when we get them in the UK. So this would be "Lime Middle"

July 2, 2010 at 3:27 PM
Karen715 said...

Most American limes are medium to dark green on the outside, though not as dark as the leaves of this plant. I think the color name "lime green" is a reference to the pulp, although that really isn't that yellow-green color, either.

"Chartreuse Edge" probably isn't catchy enough.

July 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM
mr_subjunctive said...

Sixwing / Karen715:

When I first saw this, I took "Lime Edge Jenny Craig" to be all one cultivar name, or else I would have included "has two cultivar names" as one of the options. I've seen 'Art' called something along those lines on-line before, actually. Don't remember where, but it's sort of logical.

Andrew:

I've never seen a $220 Dracaena, but I've seen $120 ones where I used to work. This one might or might not have been worth $34: all this place's plants were packed so tightly together that it was hard to get a sense of how big most of them were without picking them up.

Pat:

Karen715 beat me to it, but just to support her point: I usually understand "lime green" to be a yellowish-green, not having anything to do with the color of actual limes. Greener than chartreuse, but only just. I don't know how this got started.

July 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Anonymous said...

Plant needs bright light. There is a Dracena variety named 'Janet Craig Lemon-Lime', but I thought it had interior stripes, not light green leaf margins.

This plant is a much better outdoor planting than house plant - they tend to be leggy when they lack proper light conditions.

Agreed with another poster - would never pay more than 15-20 bucks for a large plant.

July 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM

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