Mystery plants with wonderful color contrast taken outside public government building in October.
Can you help me identify this plant?
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Babette
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These beautiful plants have no flowers and the colors are a nice vivid contrast with the lime green and deep purple tones together. They are outside a government bldg. and nobody I have talked to knows what they are.Has anybody ever seen anything like them? We would love to have some in our yard, think they would look splendid in a hanging basket (?) or a slightly sloping hillside garden. What are they & where can we get some? Gracious, they are still there looking wonderful in this photo I took just today in October despite the cooler weather we've had!. Will they last awhile longer? Come back again in the spring - or are they annuals?
Sweet potato vine
Ornamental sweet potato vines. I don't know anyone who has tried to save them but several fellow gardeners say the sweet potatoes they dug up in the fall were small, but very nice and tasted good.
Agree. I plant these every year.
yepp, potatoe vine mostly used as an annual, however in warmer areas of the country the are year round. mostly used as a decorative hanging plant rather than for the potatoes, but can produce potatoes.
Yep, sweet potato vine. I also plant these as a border in my large planters.
I agree, Sweet Potato Vine. Pretty foliage!
Agreed! So lush!
Sweet Potato Vine