How Dracaena Varieties Made My Friend’s Life a Fairytale

Dracaena Varieties

Recently my friend made an overhaul in his flat and it turned into a modern and comfortable place. He was really glad but felt that something was missing. The flat looked big and empty, wide windowsills were unfulfilled, in two words, his sweet home looked very much like an office and not the place to live.

Then my friend asked me for advice and I told him to purchase some plants to make his house more alive.

How many flowers have he seen at the florist’s! My friend didn’t know where to look first. A shop assistant had quite a huge story about all these sorts of plants and my friend listened to the whole thing. But he wasn’t interested until he saw a dracaena palm. The beautiful plant doesn’t need any special care.

Dracaena adapts to both dark and light illumination. And you should water dracaena only when the ground is completely dry. There are more than 50 dracaena varieties, different terminalis and character species. My friend was unbelievably shocked by this information because he didn’t even know at least one class of this exciting plant.


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So, what dracaena varieties do I recommend choosing for an apartment?

Dracaena Sanderiana

It looks very much like bamboo stalks, but in fact it is not. Light green with woody "rings", the stems of this plant at the top end with long leaves up to 25 cm long. The total height can reach 70-100 cm. It is believed that the exotic Dracaena Sandera, with its beautifully intertwined cuttings, brings happiness and good luck to its owner.

Dracaena Fragrans

It can grow to the size of a true indoor tree (2.5 m) with a strong trunk and large arched leaves (6–8 cm wide and up to 70 cm long) of a characteristic color. This dracaena was called "fragrans" because of the tangible smell of freshly cut hay emanating from racemose inflorescences, which are usually of cream or pink-greenish color. This plant tolerates well shade and temperatures up to +10° С.

Dracaena Reflexa

The peculiarity of this type of dracaena is that its elongated (15–20 cm) and narrow leaves with a white or cream border, fitting to the trunk in bunches, are slightly bent at the ends. This lush plant resembles a miniature tropical shrub, and as a result it looks very decorative in any setting.

Dracaena Marginata

It most resembles a palm tree among all other species. Its numerous narrow leaves are gathered in one or more bunches on a woody trunk. The plant is one of the most unpretentious in lighting, it likes shade and warm, humid weather.

Dracaena Janet Craig (Dracaena compacta)

It is a very beautiful tall palm tree with large, slightly wide leaves. On a thin (up to 8 cm in diameter) green trunk, there are several lush branches. It is a very useful plant from the point of view of the environment. Dracaena Janet Craig and some other species perfectly filter the air, purifying it of harmful impurities and saturating it with oxygen.

Although the ideal climate for different varieties of dracaena should be slightly different, these nuances are not fundamental. As a whole, the plant adapts perfectly to normal household conditions, remaining fresh and green for many years.

Dracaena Surculosa

An evergreen highly branched shrub grows up to 5 -10 m high in its natural environment. When kept indoors, it reaches a height of 50-300 cm. The leaves of this dracaena type are oval, elliptical, with pointed edges. The length of the leaves is 7‒10 cm, the width is 3‒5 cm. The surface is leathery. The color is bright green, interspersed with green, white, cream or yellow.

Dracaena ‘Warneckii’

Dracaena Warneckii is a kind of fragrant dracaena, unpretentious perennial plant that can grow up to 2 meters in height as an indoor plant. This species is distinguished by narrow leaves up to half a meter long and about 5 cm wide. The color of the leaves is rich green with a beautiful silvery (less often yellow) border around the edges.

When grown indoors, it rarely blooms, releasing a "panicle" of white, pleasantly smelling flowers. The delicate scent of flowers distinguishes Warneckii from most of the other dracaena varieties.

Dracaena Fragrans ‘Lemon Lime’

Lemon lime is a kind of dracaena fragrant. Its main difference from other types of dracaena is bright leaves with yellow stripes. At home, you can grow a flower 60-90 cm high. Rare specimens reach 2 m in height. At the same time, the plant develops for a long time - within 10 years.

The advantages of growing this representative of dracaena varieties are:

  • Excellent decorative properties (in terms of attractiveness, lemon lime surpasses most other species of this family)
  • Easy care
  • High speed of plant adaptation
  • Propagation does not require much experience, repotting is easy

The benefit and wonderful features of dracaena varieties

Dracaena varieties are very attractive, moreover, these plants are mostly very easy to care for.

Young representatives of dracaena varieties are perfect as indoor plants either for home or office. Over time, Dracaena plants grow older, develop woody stems and look more treelike. Mature plants of some dracaena varieties are ideal for garden, patio and sunroom, since they grow very high and look pretty good.

The varieties of dracaena are so diverse that absolutely everyone will pick up suitable plants according to the conditions of keeping, type and other preferences.

Dracaena types vary in size, color and shape, you can choose for yourself both a familiar and a more exotic plant.

Now dracaena varieties decorate my friend’s home and are pleasant to his guests’ eyes. The whole point is that his flat is like a fairytale and he doesn’t do anything for it!

About the Author

My name is Michael Bauer,

I have been growing and taking care of plants for 20 years. My dream has become a reality. I've had many difficulties along the way, but my love for our favorite plants has really helped me.

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