Tomato plants and other attempts at gardening

[feng_shui_house]

I cleaned out the weeds & dead zinnias from three planters I've repurposed from the days when my city issued open plastic rectangular bins (not all that large) for recycling. When they changed over to large covered bins with wheels they didn't ask for the old ones back, so I popped a few holes in them and filled them with dirt. By the time I throw something out, it's really gone. :^)

I gave each planter 3 of the largest tomato plant sprouts from the crowded buckets I started them in, and then I dug a few holes in the weeds near the back wall and planted a few more.

Then I took some plants that had grown from cuttings I put in a compost heap on the tiled patio and transferred them along the back fence-- after pulling up a lot of viney creeper weeds. I have no idea what these plants are called- they grow BIG floppy reddish leaves. Well, if they don't die, they will. :^) Well, this is what they look like, when they're not recently ripped up and roughly dumped in a new place.

Hard to see in the photo, but they do grow something like a long thin catkin which I suppose is a flower of a sort... don't recall them ever seeding, but who knows?

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[watervole]

No idea what it is, so probably not common in the UK, which isn't much help!

[feng_shui_house]

I got curious and did a google walk-- first I tried 'plant with red leaves' and wound up with poinsettia-nope, then 'plant with red and pink leaves and catkins' and wound up with chenille plant-- nope. BUT 'Acalyphas (Chenille Plants)' made me look for Acalyphas in general, and I found it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acalypha_wilkesiana

The common names are copperleaf and Jacob’s coat. Definitely it's tropical/subtropical plant- and interestingly, it also has medicinal use to treat fungal skin infections.

Yay! I love solving mysteries.