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Saturday, June 4, 2011

The surprise flowerings from my wandering jew cutting


"THOSE WHO WANDER ARE NOT NECESSARILY LOST" -- JRR Tolkien

I stole a little cutting of purple wandering jew from a garden in Brisbane, and brought it down to cold old Melbourne. I thought if I just put it in a sunny spot for a week or two in a glass of water, and let it acclimatize to the cold down here, that everything would just work out fine. Well, not only did it work out fine! It sprouted these tiny little beautiful flowers one after another for weeks. They'd only last a few hours, and then another one would come up two days later. I felt like I was being being showered with wandering jew blooms. A friend told me about how when plant is threatened with death it just throws out
as many of its flowers/seeds as it can. 

2 comments:

  1. Wandering Jew cuttings sprout easily and very fast. It's such a beautiful plant that doesn't require much attention. I hope you are enjoying your Wandering Jew blooms.

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  2. I am really pleased with reading your blog!!! Excellent content wrote, thanks

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