My longtime readers may remember that last year I had two dracaena marginatas or whatever they are now called, but Greg (who is also a dracaena) fell over and decapitated one, and oddly it was unable to recover. The other one is now taller than the ponytail palm. Last year it seemed very happy outside, but this year is so rainy that I was afraid it would drown in its pot with no drainage. I guess I could just put it in a pot with drainage, but instead I brought it in every time it rained, including today. (Got very wet on my lunchtime walk!) So then I had another idea: I could put it on our porch, which is sort of like being outside, except the rain can't get at it.
If you are wondering why there is a trash bag on our porch, that is stuff from Travalon's storage unit that we haven't sorted yet. I had always thought of this plant as "one of the twins," but now that its twin is dead, I thought I could call it Big Keith. My very longtime readers may remember that several jobs ago one of the faculty gave me a teeny dracaena marginata, and I named it Keith. It contributed to my blog quite a bit before I was forced to bring it home because I could only have "professional-looking" plants in my office, and apparently none of the plants I had fit the bill. It didn't like my house and soon died, but its spirit lives on here on my blog. In fact, I did a search for "Keith" on the blog and enjoyed reading its contributions in the shadow of Big Keith. Hopefully Big Keith enjoys its time on our porch more than Little Keith enjoyed Plant World.
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