Good Afternoon, Last weekend my husband bought me several plants from a nursery on our way home from a mini vacation. Sadly the staff wasn't knowledgeable about the plants and couldn't tell me anything about this plant. All the tag said was that it was a tropical plant. Here is a picture I took with my cell phone, if I need a better photo I can take one. Unknown Purple Flower-Plant ( photo / image / picture from LenaWood's Garden ) Thanks for any help you can provide Lena
That is a Tradescantia pallida (Wandering Jew, Purple Heart) Can be grown in a basket, container on as a ground cover outside. It is a perennial in zones 8 and south but might be an annual where you are if it is left outside.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. it was frustrating to have the clerks tell me that if it didn't come with a marker in the plant they had no idea. Lena
Hi Lena I smuggled a piece of that same plant home from Georgia in 2001 :-D I am happy to say that I still have it's offspring living with me today! I am in Klamath Falls and obviously it is an annual down here. However, I break a few pieces off every summer, stick them in a jar of water and start new plants to keep in my office. They will winter over on the window sill and then come summer I put them back outside and start the cycle all over again. I love the little pink blossoms they put out every day
They grow like weeds down here in SE Texas. If you just drop a piece on the ground... it will grow...and grow...and grow! Dies off in winter but comes back strong.
