Nature and Nurture, Care and Culture- growing your own “Comfort Plant.”

Plectranthus “Comfort Plant” is a succulent with a spreading or hanging growth habit. If you live in a frost-free area, like coastal southern California, or south Florida, then “Comfort Plant” can be planted directly in the garden. It likes full sun, to part shade outdoors, and is quite drought tolerant once established, needing only a good, deep watering every week to week and a half. It will grow in a “mat” like shape, spreading a good 2 to 4 feet in the garden over time. Indoors it needs full sun, close to a window.

In cooler climates where frost or more severe cold is the environment, then grow “Comfort Plant” in pots that can be placed in sunny windows during the cold months, and then brought outdoors in the warmer, frost-free times of the year.

Plectranthus “Comfort Plant” likes a well drained, sandy soil. In pots, use any potting, or cactus and succulent soil. Regular fertilizing is important so this little medicine- manufacturing-plant has the raw materials it needs to make its miracle components. Use a well balanced fertilizer, applied according to the directions, for this purpose. This should be applied about every three to four months.