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Author Garden: Mystery tropicals from Lowe's roflol Dream Gardener Member # 10717 posted                    These came off the 25-cents-a-pot table at Lowe's today. The plants in the top picture came labeled "I Am The Succulent." lol. The second one is *very* bumpy textured; there are three plants in the pot. Is the third picture a type of Dracaena (no stalk to speak of, just a floret of leaves, best I can describe it)? And is the bottom one a Boston Fern? Thanks in advance. Plants: 194 | From: On the net somewhere... else. *Poof* | Registered: Aug 2006  |  Seeded: 69.242.174.31 badplanter Garden Pro! Member # 10062 posted                       Very interesting! The last one does look like some type of fern... * * * * "I don't want no more of army life, gee mom, I wanna go, but they won't let me go, gee mom, I wanna go home!" My PB! Plants: 6469 | From: Staten Island, NYC | Registered: Jul 2006  |  Seeded: 64.12.117.7 DowntoEarth Dream Gardener Member # 6146 posted                       You got some nice bargains there! You certainly can't go wrong with 25 cents a plant! The first one's name escapes me at the moment, but "Star" I think part of the common name comes to mind on that one. The second one was is a Pilea (Moon Valley) Third, Draceana (Janet Craig) Forth looks like a Boston fern. I bought a decent sized Boston fern at Lowe's several yrs back off the discount table, sometimes called the "dead cart" for a buck, a buck well spent! Plants: 215 | From: Upstate NY | Registered: Jul 2005  |  Seeded: 64.12.117.7 roflol Dream Gardener Member # 10717 posted                    Thanks for the info, Mark and DowntoEarth! I can now (hopefully) take care of the Pilea Moon Valley (very appropriate name!), Janet Craig Dracaena (hooray! another low-light plant!) and Boston fern and get them in better shape, still hoping to find out what the top ones are for sure. :-) I agree, can't go wrong with a quarter a plant... I don't have the best history when it comes to houseplants but I'm willing to gamble that much. Plants: 194 | From: On the net somewhere... else. *Poof* | Registered: Aug 2006  |  Seeded: 69.242.174.31 chermoni Garden Pro! Member # 10408 posted                       That third one is definately a Janet Craig Dracaena, I have one that I had gotten as a mystery plant from Fred Meyer 3 years ago and it's still doing well. Great finds, congrats to you! * * * * Cheryl's Photobucket My journal Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why it's called the present. Plants: 1155 | From: The emerald city, home of the space needle | Registered: Jul 2006  |  Seeded: 24.19.171.7 zuzu's petals Dream Gardener Member # 6633 posted                       Great finds, roflol , I wish I'd been there to grab an armful, too. That first one is Cryptanthus bivittatus, and as DowntoEarth said, a couple of it's common names are "Earth Star" and "Starfish Plant". * * * * je mange, donc je suis ~~~ rene dessertcart My Albums Plants: 431 | From: coastal n.c. | Registered: Aug 2005  |  Seeded: 65.184.136.142 roflol Dream Gardener Member # 10717 posted                    Thanks, zuzu's petals! That looks like another one I might be able to handle! chermoni, thanks for sharing your experience with the Janet Craig, I am hoping I will also be successful with mine. Ohhhh, I wish I had more gardening friends who lived close by, I'd have bought all the plants to give away as there were so many well worth the quarter! Thanks for the help, everybody! Plants: 194 | From: On the net somewhere... else. *Poof* | Registered: Aug 2006  |  Seeded: 69.242.174.31 dodge Garden Pro! Member # 6964 posted                       roflol, Just watch for white flies on those from Lowes. Last 2 years i did like you did.......White fly arrived too..really bad. dodge * * * * ''''Those who live in the Lord Never See Each Other For The Last Time!'''' Plants: 3279 | From: Rural - Western Pennsylvania | Registered: Oct 2005  |  Seeded: 204.11.80.99

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