I don't think this is the right spot for this post so please move it Robyn if needed.

I have this plant in my yard [the one with spiked leaves] by the pond. I planted it last year [2007] and can't remember what it's called. I have been looking on the internet for the last week trying to figure it out. I searched for palms, yucca, spike leaves and on and on. I had the little stake that came with it from the nursery but it either blew away or like a dummy I threw it out. :blink:
Anyone know what this plants name is or what family it belongs to?

tia

Have you seen the flowers? Most yucca types have bell shaped flowers.

It looks like a dracaena! I think that is what it is , I had LOTS of them at my old place.......where it was WARMER!!!! This is what I know them to look like! There a lot of different varieties but yours looks like a common one. There are some very pretty stipped ones too. They don't flower.

Yahoo!! I googled the name dracaena and yep it's in that family just like you said KK. I hadn't seen any flowers but wasn't sure b/c I thought maybe I hadn't had it long enough to flower. It is a relative of the yucca. Maybe a long lost relative ;) They are cool looking. Kind of a tropical look I think.

I wonder if you are supposed to tie them up for the winter. I thought the leaves might break if it snowed on them then froze. :unsure:

Thanks. I have been looking for that for days and days...
tia

I don't tie my yuccas..and they're stiffer leaves. My nieghbors had one yucca that she said had flowered once when she planted it, 30 years later I got it to flower again. When they died, my new neighbors threw it out...I went dumpster diving for the mama plant. :rolleyes: It's long dead but I now have at least a dozen full grown babies. :D Wish they weren't so buggy when they flower. :angry:

I was concerned that it might not make it here b/c of all the rain that we get. I thought maybe it would get root rot! It's a little yellow looking at the tips right now. I hope it perks up. If I remember right the little nursery tag said that it could grow as high as 25 feet?? I can't remember for sure. I am going to read more about it tonight thanks to KK's pic. The whole beauty of the plant is the spike and I didn't want them to get broken off. I don't know how fast they would grow back and I need this plant for the calendar contest!!

Sadie how did you get them to reproduce by taking a cutting? :unsure:

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