Meine wunderschöne Dame mit dem Regenbogenfilm heute!

This is a beautiful Tradescantia zebrina! I live in Costa Rica where it grows outdoors. In its natural state it’s a ground cover and also climbs nearby trees. Here’s a wild patch we have on our property. It dies back completely during our dry season but returns when the rains start again. Periodically I grab handfuls of it and stick cuttings in indoor pots with other trailing plants to add a nice contrast and mix of colors & patterns. In pots it will eventually trail down really long, and the longer it gets the further apart the leaves are so it starts looking kind of straggly and stringy. I just snip off the ends, root them in a jar of water, and then add the new cuttings back into pots to keep them full. Enjoy!

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I love this plant! The colors just speak to me!

I just stumbled across one of these in an outdoor setup, labeled as an annual, which it would be where I live if you planted it outside. It’s nicely established with several vines and was like $4. So obvs I snapped it up. I was surprised when I found out it’s considered an invasive weed in its natural habitat 😂 but that tracks, because I have a T Nanouk I propped a while back and that node grew roots in like a week. Super easy to propagate. Love these guys.

Also, I have the exact same rainbow film on the lower half of my giant living room windows. It was originally put up to blur my small dog’s vision to the outdoors because he’d bark at every single damn leaf that blew by. He outsmarted it quickly by discovering if he stood on his hind legs on the back of the couch he could see over the fill. Now it just casts rainbows in my house 😆

I don’t need any more plants, but looking at your gorgeous lady with the rainbow makes me want one.

So bushy ! Mine is so much spread out, even if it’s only 2m from the window, full south 😞