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Hi everybody,

Thanks for looking at this. I'm new here and I'm also a novice gardener, even though I love gardens and across the years have done planting and some maintenance. I suppose I'm especially a novice to plant variety knowledge and how to take care of specific species--and that's what I'm here to ask about:



So there you have her. There's a small parsley to the left, but I'm interested in the main plant in the photo. It used to be green (around when it flowered clusters of little white flowers in the spring) but recently it's become a sickly yellow color. That was about a month ago and I thought it might need better sun so I moved it to a sunnier spot, but then it just continued to be in bad shape.

So the 2 questions I have:

What plant it this?
Any ideas about how to nurse her back into life?

Thanks!

Welcome, willow. I think this is a tradescantia. And even if is not it is a close cousin. The care should be pretty common.
Here is how you should care for it. And I would definitely feed it if you haven't.

Great, thanks. I think the fertilizer is what I need. Don't know how to say fertilizer in Spanish though so I guess I've got homework!!!

Thank you,

Window Sill Gardener

Plant food- fortalecedor de plantas
Fertilizer- fertilizante
I use babelfish for translating most things.