Somewhere last summer looking for new vegetable pots I picked up one with a dried out plant from in front of the door just for that. Next day at closer look the pot wasn't that useful but the plant wasn't so dead yet. With two tiny green leaves in between the dry branches I poured some water in and left it in the yard where it was. To my surprise it started to grow quickly. In autumn I took it in in and by then it had grown by at least six centimeters. The munching away from the first growing leave by some insect didn't hurt aparently. Without further care to my surprise a couple of weeks ago I found something red sprouting from the center. Never in my lifetime I managed to grow or regrow flowers on a succulent!
About time to find out more. Lucky the name is on the pot! It turns out Aeschynanthus Mona Lisa does not want too much light, so just perfectly placed by my back window in my groundfloor apartment.
This is how the flowers, now on my plant still in development, in the end will look like.
Later on I will have to give it a bigger pot and fresh earth, but for now I must leave it alone untill it gets stronger. I'll add some soil on top, give plant feed and remove the dry branches. And then hopefully it will become like this: an abuntlantly growing hanging plant.
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