"kate" wrote in message
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snipppppppppppppp prune whack

I started them from seed this year. They didn't bloom. Hopefully next
year. I think they're hardy to zone 3 or 4.

yeppers, yer dead on there........
sniiiiiiiiiiiiippppppp

That's it! I guess they do have to come in - rats! (I made the mistake of
seperating one of the Aloe from it's pups - now I've got 10 aloes, one bay
tree and 2 window boxes of Setcreasea purpurea to over winter inside -
groan.)

good to know my extensive research tracked your specific plant down. Now as
to the next statement............

I know the nurseries sell it as a ground cover,
but it's not hardy I myself have the Siderasis or Brown Spiderwort, which
I didn't want to lose so I brought mine in Friday. There is also a
variety of Tradescantia called Zebrina which is also known as Wandering
Jew, way more colorful with leaves green, silver, edged in pink or
green, and purple, or even green, silver, pink and red. These can't
survive past 40o outside.

Jonathan, here in Eastern Tennessee, they hang in there fairly well below
40o, but they pout and mush out below 38o. The purple one that people buy
at Lowes and Home Despot as "tender perennials" are just annuals. they make
impressive clumps of color, beautiful little pink flowers nestled at the
tips of the purple leaves and darker reddish purple stems, but hardy? nope.
not here. We're not in the least like San Francisco. I'm sure you get
snow......probably get frosts, and the occaisonal freeze, and if you were to
maintain those cold temperatures, you'd find that below 40o the plant would
not only suffer but would croak.
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Thanks, Mad! We got a wee bit of rain this morning and now it's quite
balmy. I may just got out and put the balm and carnations in the ground.

wish we'd gotten some of that rain, but it slid past us here in the
foothills of the Smokies. Planting your babies you grew from seed is the
best thing for them. You have a window of time to plug them in right
now...... sunny spot for both of them by the way......now for
Persephone...........
you might find it offensive that the common name for some of these plants is
'Wandering Jew', but in my English book, " The Houseplant Expert" written
by Dr. D.G. Hessayon, under Tradescantia, the common name for two varieties
of these plants be they Tradescantia fluminensis, variegata which is
LISTED IN THE BOOK as Tradescantia: Wandering Jew with (Inch Plant)
underneath this in parenthesis, on page 221, or Zebrina pendula or purpusii,
or Z. pendula quadricolor, which is also listed as Wandering Jew with (Inch
Plant) in parenthesis underneath.

I'm sure Cereus will fill us in as to the location of the originality of
these plants, (thanks Fashizzel!), but honestly, if you're offended that
someone at sometime back who knows when, decided that a common name for a
trailing vine/ground cover would be Wandering Jew, then so what? I swear, I
think sometimes that some people are too thin skinned and politically
correct. And by the way, JEWS call each other JEWS. It's not like it has a
derogatory common name of N. vine.....................(and I won't use that
one because it IS offensive to people and I, despite the fact that I am very
Southern, will not go there.........) So please lighten up, Persephone. Now
I'm gonna duck behind this here bush hoping to avoid the flame or food fight
and hope that Zhan comes to my rescue!..............
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36

Kate