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dracaena pele tips Pele Dracaena – Plant DetectivesPele Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans 'Pele') Pele Dracaena is an upright tropical houseplant valued for its glossy striped foliage, cane like growth, and easy indoor performance. Its broad green leaves are accented with bright lime to golden green striping, giving the plant a clean, colorful look without needing flowers for impact. The vertical habit makes it useful in homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where height is needed without a
Pele Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans 'Pele')
Pele Dracaena is an upright tropical houseplant valued for its glossy striped foliage, cane-like growth, and easy indoor performance. Its broad green leaves are accented with bright lime to golden green striping, giving the plant a clean, colorful look without needing flowers for impact. The vertical habit makes it useful in homes, offices, lobbies, and interior plant displays where height is needed without a wide footprint. With bright indirect light, well-drained soil, and careful watering, Pele Dracaena brings dependable structure and tropical foliage color to indoor spaces.
Distinctive Features
Pele Dracaena grows from upright shoots or canes topped with rosettes of broad, glossy leaves. The foliage is the main ornamental feature, with rich green leaves and bright lime to golden green variegation that adds contrast through the year. Its slow growth and upright habit make it easier to manage indoors than many broad, spreading tropical plants. While mature Dracaena fragrans can flower under ideal conditions, Pele Dracaena is grown primarily for its foliage and rarely blooms as an indoor houseplant.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in bright indirect light but can tolerate medium to low 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 soil to dry partly 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 4 to 8 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide indoors, depending on pot size, light, and pruning.
- Habit: Forms an upright, slow-growing tropical houseplant with cane-like stems and rosettes of broad arching foliage.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a vertical indoor focal point in living rooms, offices, entry areas, lobbies, or bright corners where its striped foliage can add height and structure.
- Floor Plant: Place in a decorative container where its upright form can fill 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 houseplants to create a layered indoor plant display with contrasting leaf shapes, heights, and textures.
- Container Planting: Grow in a sturdy, well-drained pot with enough weight and room to support the plant 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 cut back canes if height control or branching is desired.
Why Choose Pele Dracaena?
- Striped Foliage: Displays glossy green leaves with bright lime to golden green variegation for year-round indoor color.
- Upright Shape: Adds vertical structure without taking up as much width as many other large houseplants.
- Easy Indoor Care: Handles typical home and office conditions when watered carefully and kept out of harsh direct sun.
- Slow Growth: Maintains a manageable size indoors and can be pruned if additional height control is needed.
- Versatile Placement: Works well in living rooms, offices, entries, lobbies, bright corners, and decorative containers.
Pele Dracaena is an excellent choice for anyone who wants a colorful, upright houseplant with tropical character and manageable care needs. Its glossy striped foliage, cane-like structure, and narrow footprint make it a dependable plant for adding height, texture, and year-round greenery to interior spaces.
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★★★★★ 3
Disappointing
Format: Hardcover
I had high hopes. But this book seems to be more of a rosy retrospective of one college president years in charge than it is a real useful book about how to help students.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Reminds us of the value of a college education beyond academic facts and skills.
Format: Kindle
At a time when many students and families are questioning the value of a 4-year college education, Porterfield does a great job of describing the intangibles behind an earned degree. Many people are aware that there is more to a college education than academic facts and skills, but this book presents the case comprehensively. It identifies "soft skills" specifically and gives good examples of how they can be taught and learned in the college environment.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Loved it!
Format: Kindle
Mia is a ten-year-old Chinese immigrant. She had immigrated to California from China 2 years earlier with her parents, who were hoping for a better life. Unfortunately, the United States in the 1990s was not exactly welcoming to Chinese immigrants, and many struggled. Mia and her parents were no different. After gaining and losing several jobs and facing homelessness again, Mia's parents take a job managing a motel. Unfortunately, the motel owner - who is Taiwanese, not Chinese, as he is quick to point out - is not only overtly racist, he is also exploitive and seems almost happy to point out to Mia's parents that they could be replaced immediately when they question his actions.
But Mia and her parents try to make the best of it. Mia works the front desk when at the motel, quickly learning the ropes and consistently trying to find ways to help the guests and her family. She also becomes friends with the weeklies at the motel - those guests who live at the motel and pay weekly - and they quickly become part of her growing family.
At school, though, Mia struggles. She can't tell the other students - most of whom are white - that she lives in a motel. She struggles in English, though she loves writing, and she also has disagreements with her mother who thinks she should focus on math and forget about writing because "she'll never be able to write as well as the white kids" for whom English is their native language.
Most of the book is a slice-of-life look at running a hotel and Mia's struggle to integrate with the other students at school. Though it may seem to some that too much goes wrong at the motel in too short a period of time, I can say from experience that this depiction is incredibly realistic. While reading it, I was having flashbacks to my own experience managing a motel and running the front desk. The news Mia and her family get in chapter 55, in particular, hit hard on the feels for me, because my husband and I went through that same situation. We didn't use the same solution that Mia and her family did, and I definitely loved the solution they came up with.
Throughout the story were the letters that Mia wrote, each for a different situation. These were an added touch, helping to bring the reader back to the days of the early and mid-90s, before email was ubiquitous and text messaging was still a dream. Her struggle to put word to paper, to make sure she was using the right words and tenses, was an added dimension to the story that I didn't expect but definitely appreciated. The author's note at the end, where she discussed her own experiences was also incredibly moving, and I loved learning that much of the book's scenarios were pulled from her own experiences, while also wanting to give a hug to the child that had to experience that struggle.
I had the opportunity to listen to the audiobook, narrated by Sunny Lu, and I highly recommend it. Lu did a wonderful job with the narration, injecting just the right amount of emotion and tension into the performance. I had to force myself to stop listening so I could go to bed; had I not, I would have listened right through to the end and not getting any sleep. While I would have enjoyed the story, work the next day would not have been fun. Lol.
So, long review short, I definitely recommend this book. For younger readers, I would recommend a parent read with them, as there are some tough situations that they may need/want to talk about. But overall, this is a story of hope for an immigrant family who is struggling to make a better life for themselves.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022
★★★★★ 5
A great book for all
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
What a great book. I bought it for my 12 year old granddaughter. A story of resilience.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2026
★★★★★ 5
My favorite middle grade book of 2018 so far
Format: Hardcover, Format: Hardcover
I'll never look at a motel with the same eyes again. Author Kelly Yang brings us Mia Tang, a younger version of herself, who helped her parents manage a motel in southern California in the early 1990s.
Mia and her parents arrive from China with two hundred dollars, unwavering optimism, and the belief that if they work hard enough, they will achieve the American dream: a big house, a dog, and an endless supply of juicy hamburgers. After two years of backbreaking jobs and sketchy living conditions, Mia's parents rush to sign a contract to manage the Calista Motel located five miles from Disneyland.
Mr. Yao, the notoriously cheap and unscrupulous motel owner, informs the Tangs that the contract allows him to make any changes and if they don't like the terms, "Just say the word. There are ten thousand immigrants who would take your job in two seconds" (p. 27).
Mia quickly makes friends with the "weeklies" and assigns herself front desk duty because her parents must clean every room themselves and be available 24/7 to check in guests.
Mia's moxie and sense of justice emerge as she takes on adult responsibilities with a sense of pride and unbridled enthusiasm.
She makes plenty of mistakes which makes us empathize with her struggles and root for her as she tackles the english language, bullies, crime, and embarrassment about her thrift store clothes. (Keep your eyes open for the tale of the designer jeans.)
Chapters are vignettes that are strung along with seamless transitions to make reading a pure pleasure. The author captures Mia's voice so authentically that the reader is instantly drawn into the story. Mia's uses the power of the written word to advocate for herself and others.
Kids will fall in love with Mia and cheer her fierce determination as she navigates her way through poverty and injustice, bringing her family, the weeklies, and everyone else who want to be part of the American dream with her.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018