Mona Lavendar Plectranthus (Plectranthus 'Plepalila' PP13,858)
*See the entire plant below. Now four years old. I have to bring it indoors each winter because it is not tolerant to the freezing temperatures in Illinois. It drops all its leaves, then I cut it back hard, sit it in a west facing window for the winter and water it regularly.
This plant was purchased at our local hardware store's garden center in 2018 during the fall. I left it outside until it was nearly time to get our first frost, then brought it indoors. The temperature and light conditions indoors made it go into "shock," dropping all of its leaves. Since I knew it was a perennial, I didn't give up on it and cut the stems back quite a bit. It sat near a west facing window on our kitchen table all fall, winter, and into the late spring. Over that time period the leaves, slowly sprouted out on the stems again, although they were smaller than before. When it finally got warm enough in late May 2019, I moved it to our front porch. I watered and fertilized it all summer long and just when it started to get cool again, I noticed a few flower spikes popping up! Although nothing like the massive amounts of flowers it had the first year, it made all of my efforts to care for it worthwhile!
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Mona Lavendar Plectranthus (Plectranthus 'Plepalila' PP13,858)
*See the entire plant below. Now four years old. I have to bring it indoors each winter because it is not tolerant to the freezing temperatures in Illinois. It drops all its leaves, then I cut it back hard, sit it in a west facing window for the winter and water it regularly.
This plant was purchased at our local hardware store's garden center in 2018 during the fall. I left it outside until it was nearly time to get our first frost, then brought it indoors. The temperature and light conditions indoors made it go into "shock," dropping all of its leaves. Since I knew it was a perennial, I didn't give up on it and cut the stems back quite a bit. It sat near a west facing window on our kitchen table all fall, winter, and into the late spring. Over that time period the leaves, slowly sprouted out on the stems again, although they were smaller than before. When it finally got warm enough in late May 2019, I moved it to our front porch. I watered and fertilized it all summer long and just when it started to get cool again, I noticed a few flower spikes popping up! Although nothing like the massive amounts of flowers it had the first year, it made all of my efforts to care for it worthwhile!
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDe...