light needs of Purple Velvet plant

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sallyb3 Portland, OR Oct 16, 2008

I live in a basement apartment. The only windows are on the north side of the building. Outside the windows is a concrete sidewalk about 3 ft. wide with a wooden deck above for the entire width. To make things worse, the sidewalk is about 2 feet lower than the ground on the other side of it and to top all of that off, there are large evergreen trees along the north property border. So my natural light is extremely limited. I recently saw a beautiful purple velvet at the local Lowe's for a really good price and would love to have one again, but don't know if it will grow in my environment (not sure I will either!!) and I couldn't bear to kill that lovely plant. I used to have one of these a number of years ago and it was very hardy, but...

Anyone have any words of wisdom for me?

p.s. I live in metro area of Portland, Oregon

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Oct 16, 2008

There are two listed in Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2570/ and http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55063/

I think some folks grow this as a houseplant indoors so hopefully someone who has experience with this beautiful plant will come along with some advice for you. I've tried growing it in the past and it hasn't survived more than a year but I wasn't giving it any sun at all, thinking it was a very low light plant. I might just have to try it again sometime in a brighter situation.

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