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dracaena gp Michiko Dracaena – Plant DetectivesMichiko Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans 'Michiko') Michiko Dracaena is a compact tropical houseplant valued for its dense upright form, glossy green foliage, and easy indoor care. Its shorter, fuller growth makes it a strong choice for homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where a clean green accent is needed without a wide footprint. The leaves create a rich, polished look that works well with both simple modern decor and fuller indoor
Michiko Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans 'Michiko')
Michiko Dracaena is a compact tropical houseplant valued for its dense upright form, glossy green foliage, and easy indoor care. Its shorter, fuller growth makes it a strong choice for homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where a clean green accent is needed without a wide footprint. The leaves create a rich, polished look that works well with both simple modern decor and fuller indoor plant groupings. With bright indirect light, well-drained soil, and careful watering, Michiko Dracaena brings dependable structure and year-round greenery to indoor spaces.
Distinctive Features
Michiko Dracaena is grown primarily for its compact clusters of broad, glossy green leaves held in an upright, layered form. Compared with many taller cane-type dracaenas, it has a denser and more contained look, making it easier to place in smaller rooms or tighter interior settings. Its foliage provides reliable color throughout the year and can maintain a lush appearance with only basic care. While mature Dracaena fragrans can flower under ideal tropical conditions, Michiko Dracaena is grown mainly as a foliage houseplant and rarely blooms indoors.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in bright indirect light and can tolerate medium indoor light, while harsh direct sun may scorch the foliage.
- Soil: Prefers a well-drained indoor potting mix that holds light moisture without staying soggy.
- Water: Allow the upper portion of the soil to dry between waterings, then water thoroughly and let excess drain away.
- USDA Zones: Best grown as a houseplant in most climates and hardy outdoors only in frost-free tropical conditions, generally USDA Zones 10 to 12.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 3 to 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide indoors, depending on pot size, light, pruning, and growing conditions.
- Habit: Forms a compact, upright tropical houseplant with dense clusters of glossy green foliage.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a clean indoor focal point in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, or bright corners where its glossy foliage can add structure and height.
- Floor Plant: Place in a decorative container where its upright habit can fill vertical space without spreading too widely.
- Office Plant: Use in workspaces where a durable foliage plant can handle typical indoor light and low-maintenance care routines.
- Interior Accent: Pair with lower or more colorful houseplants to create a layered indoor display with contrast in height, texture, and leaf shape.
- Container Planting: Grow in a sturdy, well-drained pot with enough room for root development while keeping the plant balanced as it gains height.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water when the upper soil has dried and avoid letting the plant sit in standing water, since overwatering can lead to root problems.
- Light Care: Rotate the pot occasionally so the plant grows evenly toward the light and keeps a balanced shape.
- Leaf Care: Wipe leaves occasionally with a damp cloth to remove dust and keep the glossy foliage looking clean.
- Humidity: Average indoor humidity is usually acceptable, though the plant benefits from slightly higher humidity in very dry rooms.
- Fertilizing: Feed lightly during the active growing season with a balanced houseplant fertilizer, following label directions.
- Pruning: Remove yellow or damaged leaves as needed and trim stems if height control or shaping is desired.
Why Choose Michiko Dracaena?
- Glossy Green Foliage: Displays rich green leaves that create a clean, polished look in indoor spaces.
- Compact Form: Offers a denser, more contained habit than many taller cane-type dracaenas, making it easier to place indoors.
- Easy Indoor Care: Handles typical home and office conditions when watered carefully and kept out of harsh direct sun.
- Versatile Placement: Works well in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, bright corners, and decorative containers.
- Year-Round Structure: Provides dependable height, texture, and greenery without relying on flowers for visual impact.
Michiko Dracaena is an excellent choice for anyone who wants a compact, upright houseplant with glossy foliage and dependable indoor performance. Its rich green leaves, tidy habit, and manageable care needs make it a reliable plant for adding tropical character, structure, and year-round color to homes, offices, and interior landscapes.
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★★★★★ 3
History worth reading
Format: Kindle
Presents the history of the Bretton Woods conference, creation of the World Bank and the IMF and global and US politics surrounding the events. Discussion of Harry Dexter White, key US representative at Bretton Woods focuses on claims he was a Soviet spy beginning in the late 1930s and continuing through the conference and into the late 1940s; spends more time than necessary on this even though it is not clear how this affected the outcome of the conference. Most of the discussion of Keynes is on his reputation rather than his economics. Not the definitive history of Bretton Woods.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2013
★★★★★ 4
Foes at the Top Table
Format: Kindle
Those of us who studied economics in the 60s grew up on Keynes. This book provides a fascinating picture of the great man in action. And an equally fascinating picture of the Lend Lease negotiations and then the US hard line at Bretton Woods. Behind this hard line was Harry Woods, of Lithuanian emigre stock, who clawed his way by hard work and intelligence to negotiating prominence in the US Treasury. And who was a Soviet agent of influence. Well written, lucid, and remarkably interesting.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2013
★★★★★ 5
A distant mirror of our current problems
Format: Hardcover
The title of this excellent book accurately describes its contents:it is about a battle fought to define a new world order, that which was emerging from the ashes of World War II. The book also conveys the messy complexity of such a historical process--how individual characters interpreted the events around them, realized that they were giving shape to a radically new future, tried to take advantage of them to advance their own personal and national interests, and succeeded in accordance with their intelligence, the cunning of their argumentation, and, above all, the shifts in the real power that supported them. Masterly, Benn Steil makes the reader feel how Keynes and White gradually reached an unspoken and unrecognized agreement regarding the shape that the new world would have, and then fought to gain advantage in that new world--Keynes trying to keep the British Empire paramount in the world order, now based not on the Royal Navy but on Britain's alliance with the United States, the emerging superpower, and White asserting the unimpeded power of the United States. Focusing on one crucial aspect of the new order, money, Steil is able to reenact the human drama of the transfer of world power from Britain to the United States in all orders of life. It is an excellent history book.
The book, however, goes beyond history as the narration and understanding of past events. When reading it, there is an eerie feeling that you are reading about current events. The process that led to Bretton Woods started thirty years before, with World War I and the end of the classical gold standard. When the war ended, a new monetary system was created, which was called the gold exchange standard. It resembled but emasculated the power of the old gold standard to keep monetary order in the world at large. This new system gave central banks the power to create money independently of the international consequences of doing it. With time, central banks abused this power, created a boom in the 1920s and then a depression in the 1930s. Bretton Woods was convened to reintroduce order in the monetary world. Like the gold standard of old, the new system created there was tied to gold in an effort to ensure stability. Yet, it also allowed central banks freedom to create money under certain circumstances. As it happened in the 1920s and 1930s, central banks abused their power, blew up the international system (in this case the Bretton Woods system) and then led the world into a series of booms and busts that has not ended as yet. A new monetary order will be needed to avoid worldwide inflation and protracted recessions. To understand the issues that will be crucial to give shape to this new monetary order it will be necessary to revisit the making of Bretton Woods in detail. There is no better way to understand these issues that Ben Steil's The Battle of Bretton Woods. Thus, in addition to being an excellent history book, it is also an excellent book about current events.
Full disclosure: I wrote a previous book with Benn Steil: Money, Markets and Sovereignty (Yale University Press, 2009).
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2013
★★★★★ 5
The Battle of Bretton Woods
Format: Hardcover
From the growing reliance upon international finance and the devastating repercussions of two World Wars, Steil weaves together an important narrative that tells the story of America's rise to the world stage as a major power. Britain's reign of dominance comes to an abrupt end under the weight of the Second World War and the dependence of their territories. Reliance on foreign aid and mounting debt put Britain in a precarious situation for which the United States capitalized on to secure its place as the dominant world power. Through the ideas and experiences of two brilliant economists, Harry White and John Keynes, were guided through the creation and implementation of an economic solution to remedy, and further amalgamate the global financial framework. At Bretton Woods, White and Keynes promote slightly different plans that form the International Monetary Fund and World Bank; organizations designed to monitor, stabilize, and assist international finance. To Britain, and much of the world's chagrin, the organizations are formed in a manner that benefited the United States post-World War Two position as a creditor nation. Dollar dominance in the newly designed financial markets promotes short-term growth for the United States. However, financial mismanagement and over-extension soon lead the U.S. down a path of monetary hardship that ultimately results in our current situation as debtor nations (much like Britain was when the story began). The author ends the narrative by chronicling the effects of Bretton Woods on the United States, Britain, and international finance from the mid-twentieth century to the present. This book tells the remarkable story of America's rise to power through a financial lens. Steil is a wonderful writer who describes complex ideas of monetary policy, international economics, and currency manipulation in such a manner that is easy to understand and leaves the reader wanting more.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2013
★★★★★ 5
A concise, readable history of European developments prior to W.W. i.
Format: Paperback
This is part of a 4 volume series on (primarily) European history covering the development of the French and Industrial revolution(s) with particular emphasis on the Belle Epoque that marked the end of nearly 100 years of peace among the European Powers. It covers a variety of topics ranging from the emergence of the working classes; the role of the middle class; industrial capitalism; nationalism; the sciences and the arts; and, even a chapter on the "New Woman". Quite encompassing in its treatment and its analysis of the a period that serves as a background to the twentieth century.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018