Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers - Part 2, 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Hello Everyone, what an Easter weekend we had, incredible, wasn't it? Snow in the morning and beautiful sunshine in the afternoon. We even went for a walk in the park, to wear off dinner, and it was lovely. Many plants are coming along there too.

This plant is called Ruellia Brittoniana, or Mexican Petunia, or Wild Petunia, this is a native of Mexico that has naturalized in the southern u.s. I love this plant because it will do well in sun or shade, and it will bloom till frost. It is also very easy to propagate, when I take cuttings they normally have roots popping out of the bottom of the pots in two weeks.
The emerging plant, 3-5-05.