Purple Heart Vine

Purple Heart Vine, labeled here as Setcreasea pallida, but more correctly it is a Tradescantia, Tradescantia pallida, a native of Mexico.  Picture taken July 21, 2011.


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Our native spiderworts are also Tradescantias, closely related to this Purple Heart Vine.

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Yellow Zantedeschia

Here is a yellow Zantedeschia elliottiana.  Picture taken July 3, 2011.

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Nasturtium

Nasturtium (Tropolaeum majus).  Picture taken July 3, 2011.

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Bergenia

A hybrid Bergenia.  You can make it squeek like a pig. Picture taken July 3, 2011.

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Impatiens balsamina

Rose Balsam (Impatiens balsamina).  Picture taken July 3, 2011.

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The seed pods of Impatiens will pop if you touch them, which is why sometimes it is called touch-me-not: