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I've been growing it all summer and have no idea what to call it.

I guess 'that thing on the yellow chair' won't do.


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It looks likeone of the peperomia plants. But there are so many


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Thanks, Jonni, but it doesn't look like the ones on this page I found . . .

http://www.succulent-plant.com/families/piperaceae/peperomia.html

I never saw a bloom on it, so that won't help me. Hopefully, I will see a bloom by next spring.

I'll see how they do indoors.



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I am pretty useless with house plants. Unless they will grow outside in the ground here. And not always helpful with any plants out of my zone. I am sorry.


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Tina, a lot of our houseplants are probably ones you guys use as landscaping plants outside lol

Carly, the closest thing I can come up with is some sort of Fittonia


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Okay, I'm gonna toss "pilea" into the mix... grin

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Well, that looks 'close', doesn't it?

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/pilea1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week132.shtml&h=303&w=384&sz=22&tbnid=4I6pWfLMbM7W1M:&tbnh=97&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpilea&hl=en&usg=__YO0Jt09g03Ukk4EA8mCfpur0-Tw=&ei=xW-NS46rDsjM8QaS7smoDw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CA4Q9QEwBA

Have a look here, and see how much of it has grown . . .

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That was in the fall . . .

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There's two in there . . . and I've got one on the windowsill in the office. I think they'll make good plants for the sconces I have on each end of my table garden.

It started out as a wee piece I got when I was out in Fort Erie visiting my brother last summer; it's been booming since.

I've yet to see any flowers.




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some kind of plectranthus maybe. i may have the spelling wrong...


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OK - let's google plectranthus . . . any particular species you have in mind?




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Originally Posted by Tina
I am pretty useless with house plants. Unless they will grow outside in the ground here. And not always helpful with any plants out of my zone. I am sorry.


Oh, I had these growing outdoors in summer. When I got the clipping at my brother's place in Fort Erie, it was outdoors - and in shade.

I started my clipping indoors (last year) and kept it going all summer outside on my table garden. It actually separated on its own - made two plants. Now . . . if my watering procrastination hasn't killed them, there'll be two more, 'cause I just did clippings off those.

Gotta' water today - haven't done so since last Tuesday.


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Oh yeah - and I've already given the clippings some fertilizer . . . Jobes . . . it's almost gone; I still have one sleeve of Miracle Grow left - might start up with that at the end of the month.


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OK - thought I'd update y'all on this one . . . you wouldn't believe how these two slips grew! I have a sheetload of 'em - last night, I potted the last of my plants for indoors.

I've saved quite a bit of this stuff - at least three pots. But there was a big root of it left - big as a breadbox worth. I just put it in the ground.

Might even be pleasantly surprised in spring to find out the 'Fort Erie Clippings' actually over wintered. Dunno'.

The 'pilea' link is closest. But when I don't remember it, 'scuse me if you see me still referring to it as the 'FEC'.

Thanks all for your help on this stuff.

(Glad I kept it - I just love the stuff even if it never gave me flowers - 'course neither did some men I knew in my single days - but they weren't bad men - heh! heh!)




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