Genus: Ruellia

Ahh, wonderful, I'll have a look! :-)

I listed some of what I have on my Canadian Seed Trading blog.

I've really a bunch Gillian, just some is older. I've got some starting up to test their viability. I'd love to trade!

That's lovely! If you get enough seed is there anything from my garden you'd like to trade for?

Great! rhizomes all dry and sleeping happily in the dark basement...

Sure, I'll get some seed wet and start testing for viability. Theres always more. I had it in a terarium and it reseeded itself all over.

ooo cool. we could do a trade .... canna rhizome for ruellia seed?

This is a real pleasing plant Mike. I enjoy it in all seasons.

Lori, This is definately a shrub. I have to cut back hard to keep fresh growth like this or pot on until it is far to large for the house. It stops blooming when it outgrows the pot. Ruellia makoyana. It just wonderful. It has successful seed from each flower, I could test some for viability and send over perhaps.

The leave sure are great aren't they ? Beautiful.

When I saw the leaves I thought it was a type of gesneriad called Episcia...doesn't look shrubby like the Mexican petunia ...is it a special var?

I love this plant Janey. It can get a serious flush of bloom but this one is a little outgrown for that. Simple and lovely.

Very pretty leaves Gt...and the flower a bonus!

Similar flower to streptocarpus, a long trumpet. But its leaves are very thin and the plant a little more woody. It seeds at every bloom as well, I don't know strepocarpus to be so prolific. I can't seem to google any information about any relation either. Maybe tasteyg :-)

Is this related to the African violet or Streptocarpus?

Thanks. :-) I like this one and can never lose it. It seed prolificly and cutting take pretty easily. Its also very rewarding.

wonderful plant Greenthumb

Really like this one Greenthumb! Very lovely leaves and the flower is a pretty colour that compliments them.

this is lovely Greenthumb

These are very fullfilling. White veining MT, purple undersides and the leaves are a bit felted. Its really stunning full flower, the pink can equal the green, but this one need a good cut to get stimulate another good flowering. Just a few at a time these days. It'll go year round with a little maintainance.

Lovely plant GT :) So bushy and full. Get's cute little flowers too, I see.

What a very attractive plant. Such a soft green and is the centre "skeleton" silver?

Thanks. This one bloomed thick all summer and has outgrown its pot. They do best cut back hard I've learned rather than potted on. Real active seeders.

This is a very healthy plant for being grown indoors. You definitely have a greenthumb.

A cut of the new tips would stimulate new branching, thus more tips to bloom on when the flush comes. I haven't cut them unless its to make new cuttings and let my overwintered plant make new growth on older leafless stems. This is my first serious year with them. Since its your spring a nice snip could get you a fuller plant with more blossoms. Hywel has a blog for overwintering his fuschias, they seem to have alot of branching, more than mine with no snip. :-)

talking about hard cut back, I've read somewhere here that I have to cut the tips of the fuchsias to allow it to grow... am I right about it?
by "ton sur toon" i meant the mix of light and dark green... light veins and dark tips of the leaves

Thanks Aleyna. I like this plant, it really gives a full flush of flower sometimes. This one is older and needs a hard cut back, but I haven't been that brave...lol. Its even a little felted. I had to look up ton sur ton, it is, pleasing in any season.

cute flower, lovely leaves, i like the "ton sur ton" of the greens

This is a lovely plant, amazing bloom color and the foliage has a nice dark purplish, green tint to it. I've never seen this one before. I don't grow many house plants.

Thanks jacque. This one comes with so much fulfillment. Really a mess once the blooming really gets going, dried flowers and even seed all over the place. I give them a real good shake now and then. I'll test some seed and see if its good, then I can spread this around!

Love the Colour of this plant :)

Lovely plant - and name - Weemama.

Very pretty...it looks very similar to an episcia...are the leaves furry like an African Violet?

I like this one. My want list just got longer.

You have some really cool plants !