March 25th, 2010: Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' (Plectranthus ) by BUFFY690

The Bloom of the Day for March 25th, 2010 was Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' (Plectranthus ).

View the bloom of the day here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/botd.php?date=2010-03-25

Great photo! What a beautiful full blooming pot of the 'Mona Lavender', one of my favorite plants.

You just have to love any plant grown so well!

I am still trying to figure out if my HD buy is this one... love them!!! (figures I can't find a flowering photo)

WOW i didn't even know mine was the pic of the day...I do love these plants and they were found to be more tolerant that once believed, of different conditions. I even had one come back with a good mulching in my yard.

nice job!

Onewish is yours Plectranthus coleoides Nico?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/259096/
Is the underside purple?

oh yes.... THANK YOU .... THANK YOU!!!!

I used to collect plects. Even ones that were so ugly, I just had to have. LOL. Always a bad sign. At the time I had a friend who collected them too so that always pushes the need to have to a whole new level. LOL Then we had an unusually cold winter and most died and I got over my addiction.

Though I just bought a gorgeous lime green one at UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens so I did not have a complete cure. I am going to pot it up with a purple/silver one I have that was new cultivar a year or 2 ago.

I just bought a few myself this year

:)

guess it's one that is easy to spread around

ok since you have had so many... I bought one that the tag just said plectranthus green on green... do you think it's this one?

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/56154/

That ones looks like one of my favorite ones. Here it gets to be a big pot! I just tossed the remains of a huge one from last year. It was recovering from winter too slowly.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/231759/ Plectranthus forsteri 'Aureus Variegatus'

I will take a pic of my lime green one later. I just love it. I am hoping to get it in a really cool pot I bought last year and just got my husband to drill holes in it. I am so beat though. We spent hours yesterday dragging big plants to the curb for a pick up to the dump today. I still have so much to get rid of. All my plants I have had in pots for years that just are too big to deal with anymore. I thought I would be sad but I am relieved to get rid of them and gain some space.

I would love to see a photo of your grown up one.. thank you!!!

I am another plecy, There was a flat (15 plants) when I left work, I will have to go today and get half the flat. Yes I plan to have a whole bed of the lovely Mona Lavender, why not it is uber easy to grow....I will post pics when they are grown in...LYLC