Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet'

A very nice colour, Wylie! :)

This is one of those plants that need to be kept in a pot or it will try to take over.

I have a pot or two of Oxalis deppei 'Iron Cross' which I like a lot more for its leaves than its flowers. I have had no problems of it trying to take over. When I planted bulbs that had flowered during the springs of several years in my old church's gardens I did notice a few tiny plants of this Oxalis growing amongst them but they seem to struggle to stay alive as I have seen no evidence of them multiplying over the years since I accidentally planted them out with spring bulbs.

I started out with 1 bulb of this O. 'Garnet', and it immediately took over. During our 2 month dry spell, it gets no water and looks completely dead. Then the rain returns and it goes crazy overnight. There are also several other types of Oxalis in the cow fields, and they compete with the grasses. But they keep the bees happy.

That would be a nice modernist wall picture.