Update

[Rich]

Earlier this year I posted a thread showing a bit of plant I had picked up in a supermarket car park.

This is how it looks now, the photo doesn't do it justice. It has purple leaves and small pink flowers on the end of each stem.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.hassett1/gifs2/thing2.jpg

[DandyLioness]

Wow! It looks lovely! :wub: What is it? <_<

[HarleyGal]

I've heard that called Moses in the Bulrushes. ;) It's a form of wandering jew plant(tradescantia-sp?), I think. :unsure: It's used in the southeast as a ground cover but I always saw it grown as a house plant before moving to NC! ;)

[Audwoman]

Rich you are right, I love love love that plant. We call it Purple Heart. It grows soooo fast, the color is gorgeous, roots easy. I use it in my pots in the summer everybody always ask me what it is or they want a piece. :D I will have some to share when I take down my outside hanging plants if anybody wants a start. PM me.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/marquest/purple1.jpg

[decompost]

:wub: oh yeah, that's a favorite of mine too, setcreasea purpurea :wub:
it's a pretty reliable herbaceous perennial here,
and like harley said, it's often used as a groundcover,
it's as tough as nails. i've even seen it used as a roadway island planting.

i've heard it called moses in a boat and moses in the bulrushes,
but i hadn't heard purple heart before, that's a pretty name for it.

[MrSeedy]

Beautiful plant Rich, and I must get one some day.!!

[HarleyGal]

I'd love to have a few pieces of that! :D I had a big pot of it several years ago but had to give it away when we moved because we ran out of room in the truck!! :rolleyes:

[TransplantShock]

pretty, ive never seen that before!