One of my unmitigated successes was rooting something called the "Livingstone Daisy" or "Mezoo Trailing Red." Of course, at the time I took the cutting the plant was not blooming and I had no way of knowing what the beautiful little plant was. I just knew that it had these thick little leaves and looked like a succulent, so I needed to have one! I had discovered it on the church grounds, and on that particular day I was lucky enough to have the master gardener of the church with me on this particular stroll, and I was rewarded with a nice cutting to work with.
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| Picture comes from "Southeast Florida Garden Evolvement", another great blog on Blogger! this person doesn't know I'm using it, but I can't find a working address to mail them and find out if I can! I hate when this happens! If they ask me to take it down, I certainly will. Its just temp until I can show off my own plant. |
Anyway, this little plant rooted with minimal problems and within 30 days I had my very first bloom on it. It took several months for another, but after that it just sorta exploded with tons of these tiny, hot pink blossoms about half the size of the pad of your thumb. Another big plus of this plant is that it's been so easy to keep here in this weird South Texas weather. It's handled the changes from the mid 30's all the way up to the 105 degree mark without batting an eye. Of course, I always keep it watered well, and make sure that it has good soil with lots of oxygen in it.
So, when you folks out there in gardening land decide to get creative with your container gardens this year (as I plan to do), think about this wonderful little plant. It will give you a great dash of hot pink right where you wan it, and you can pretty much ignore the plant most of the time as well.
Happy Gardening!
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