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<\/p>\nDo not get nettled if you are given a mind your own business plant even though it is in the same family.
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Mind Your Own Business is not an instruction but a mat-forming plant also know as Baby’s Tears. It is a creeping perennial that bears minute flowers and forms a mat or small hummock of green foliage that creeps along the soil on thin stems and hangs down over the side of a plant pot. Indoors ‘Mind Your Own Business’ grows best in a cool room and will grow well with high humidity although that is not essential. Never let it dry out and the brighter the position the more water it will need.<\/p>\n
There are 3 cultivars of Mind Your Own Business, Soleirolia soleoirolii the species which has green foliage, Variegata Silver Queen with grey-green foliage and Aurea Golden Queen. Do not get nettled if you are given a mind your own business plant even though it is in the same family. Mind Your Own Business is not an instruction but a mat-forming plant also know as Baby’s Tears. It is a creeping perennial that bears minute flowers and forms a mat or small hummock of green foliage that creeps along the soil on thin stems and hangs down over the side of a plant pot. Indoors ‘Mind Your Own…<\/p>\n
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\nIndoors ‘Mind Your Own Business’ grows best in a cool room and will grow well with high humidity although that is not essential.
\nOutdoors it is a relatively maintenance-free alternative to grass as ground cover in moist, shady areas. Frost hardy, its leaves are killed by winter frost, but it will recover to grow vigorously in spring and this is one reason it is used in Japanese gardens as an alternative to moss.
\nThe free running nature of the plant allows it to clamber over rocks and logs making green lumps and hump in organic shapes.
\nIn the picture above it is used in an Alpine garden display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"