Purple Queen purple heart
Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Queen'
Proven Winners Award Winner
USDA zones10 to 11
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Cascading
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
Garden uses
Notes
'Purple Queen' purple heart (Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Queen') is an annual for containers, borders, and rock gardens, and it also works as ground cover. This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. Deer usually look elsewhere for a meal. Its cascading stems spill over the edges of pots and walls. It grows at a moderate pace and flowers from early to late summer. It tolerates drought and salt.
Pairs well with Impatiens, Polka dot plant, and Mondo grass.