Another plant for today. Just like handwriting, choice of tie etc., I am sure that you can tell the personality of a person from the plants they choose. Well, this is one of my favourites. I generally prefer small flowers. There are exceptions, of course my
Passiflora "Lady Margaret" being among them. I decided to try
Dicliptera suberectahaving failed miserably three times with
Zauschneria californica. Okay, they are not identical but I think I prefer
Dicliptera anyway. It grows quickly, likes being in a pot, one is flowering quite happily in shade and another in full morning sun and it propagates easily from cuttings standing in water. It needs a little help with water over the summer (maybe not so when not in the ground?) but so far (2nd year) no pests. None of the dreaded spider mites and mealy bugs which attack a lot of my other plants. The one in the pic is also providing shade for a
Clematis which is sending out shoots from another pot underneath it. Double the value