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Check this out. We had this robins egg blue bidet at a 2nd hand store. It has been closed for every bit of 5 years. This had been moved behind the store. I dug it out of the weeds and brought it home... Ain't it purtty...
Full of "artyfishal" flowers. I don't like them, so I uprooted them to find a plant I had planted 5 + years ago. Still growing and blooming, in spite of 100+ degree days with no rains... 5 years... amazing!
Got you beat pod!!! This one has been in this pot for 6 1/2 years! I'm not sure its possilble to kill a Moses in the Bulrushes! At least *I've* never done so, but I've given lots of cuttings away.
Around here they are used as a ground cover by the landscape people, and it seems the more sun it gets, the deeper purple it is. I love the little blooms nestled into the leaves.
ginni
forgot to say - I love the bidet!! The color accents the Moses so well.
Aren't they amazing. I haven't heard it called moses in the bullrushes before. Yours looks like a darker purple. Maybe more sun than this one. This one is a pale color and this weekend I did a walk thru on some garden centers / greenhouses. The pale one was spotted and they called it a variegated purple heart setcreasea. They are so easy to grow, they root where they drop. In the flower beds, other pots, just anywhere. This is the same as in the "pot" pot. The variegated purple heart.
Ah, a closer look makes it a little clearer. Your 'pot' pot looks more like one of the *many* wandering jew type. I have one - another can't kill - yhat has those little white, three petal flowers. It is in the same pot I started it it 25 years ago, almost never gets brought in in the fall, comes back every spring! The only reason I do occasionally bring it in is to keep the trailing vines long so that the next year it makes a fuller basket.
I gave up years ago on trying to keep up with all the different names. I have three different baskets of things that are called 'wandering jew' and no two look alike! So many are so much alike I can't keep them straight, so it comes down to, if I like it, I keep it; if I don't like it, or it requires too much care, I give it away! With 34 ochhids, 12 epis, a dozen bromiliads, 10 Holiday cacti ( never know which holiday some will choose to bloom), plus quite a few special plants, my greenhouse is stretched to the max in the winter. I have gone to the rule of - if it can't live in the ground outside year round, it ain't for here!
TGIF Absolutely, these low maintenance plants are the kind that snag and hook us big time. With your assortment of plants, you are more ambitious than here! I am not sure what your zone is but I'll bet it is similiar.
This is an interesting thread about the variety of jew if you haven't been there yet... (http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/630031/) If this darn link thing doesn't work, it is under Houseplants Wandering Jew Plants.
With plant names, I am humored. What we call them isn't what our neighbor calls them, isn't what DG calls them... : )) pod
I will certainly check out that link - thanks. As for my 'zone' I'm in 7 - the a or b depends on the weather for a given year. I gave up on trying to figure it out and just stick with 7 period. I can remember a Christmas Eve when it was -4 degrees and another year it was 72 degrees! Go figure, or better yet, just dress accordingly, and go snow sledding or swimming!
All my plants have one of 3 or 4 names - "sweetie" (or some variartion there of) "pretty one", or "hey you" and occasionally, something along the lines of @#%^&*. Beyond that, I usually either have to look them up or not worry about it.
ginni
Good grief!!! 2006! How on earth did you uncover this one? How fun to read back thru this one.
My family lives in Minnesota. All winter they call me ALL THE TIME! I enjoy hearing from them but know when the weather turns nice, they quit calling. It's summertime in zone 3... you aren't supposed to be this bored ~ LOL
Pod: I posted a link back here to your 2006 thread when someone on another Trash to Treasure thread posted a link to a newspaper article of a lady whose neighbors weren't too happy with her toilet planters: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1000299/
Your "Potty Planter" is much prettier and I just love it!
Great fun to see this thread surface again... there were a few different threads about it and on one of them, others posted their potty photos. Some really cute ideas.
Honestly, I wouldn't make neighbors suffer with this in the front yard and although I live in the woods, it lives in my backyard even here. This year I haven't done anything with it. It has volunteer purple heart and variegated spider plants and is neglected.
I got this blue bidet thru a 2nd hand store we owned. It was NIB and when it didn't sell, I put it out by the front door and planted. On Memorial day red geraniums and small flags and tried to keep them blooming thru the 4th of July. In the heat of summer shades of purple from purple heart to Moses in the boat or oyster plant endured the evening sun. In winter petunias. For Fall I used rust and yellow blooms and foliage. It was great fun and received many comments.
Now days, it is illegal to sell commodes that aren't water efficient and it is costly to dispose of them so I'm surprised they aren't popping up in yards all over. A sign of the times ~ recycling at its' best! 8 )
Pattie~If I'd known you had a "thing" for these, I'd have salvaged the peach one for you I saw a few blocks over a couple of weeks ago. Could've brought it to you at the fall RU! LOL
