Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Tradescantia zebrina out in full midday sun on 3 June, its stems trailing off a tote lid that glares white beside them, the magenta undersides turning every shoot wine-red from above and long bare stretches showing between leaf pairs.Week of 1 JuneEight Tradescantia zebrina cuttings on 4 June, each in water a third of the way up a red party cup — four still carrying leafy tips, four down to a bare stub, not a root showing anywhere and every cut end still pale and clean.Week of 1 JuneA Tradescantia zebrina on 5 June, shot straight down into a clear glass pot with its stems already out over the gravel — each leaf two broad silver bands either side of a wine-purple center, rimmed purple, magenta where one has flipped.Week of 13 JulyA Tradescantia zebrina on 16 July with most of its crown shed, jointed stems swollen at every node trailing out of a bare pot across the grass, each leaf banded silver-cream between deep magenta margins and solid purple underneath.
