Tradescantia multiflora
31st July 2007
I'm not sure I have ever grown this deliberately. A decade or so ago I was given a truly hideous imitation concrete log supporting a number of pots in which this was growing as a weed.
I had some sentimental reasons for not immediately consigning it to the waste, and by the time I did get rid of it, it had seeded into the cracks in the paving in the conservatory, and
into an assortment of other plants. I weed it regularly to reduce the population, but I never manage to eliminate it. Outside, it seems to prosper in the shade of the house. The frost
gets it, but seedlings regrow every year.
15th June 2008