Grandma Moses’ great-grandson Rich Moses and his wife, Kathy, began working with the Agricultural Stewardship Association in 2005 to ensure their vegetable farm would not be overrun by development.

* Common name: Moses in a cradle * Botanical name: Tradescantia spathacea * What it is: A clump-forming tropical plant with bladed leaves that have plum-purple undersides.

Moses-In-The-Cradle A member of the spiderwort family, Commelinaceae, Moses-in-the-cradle is a frost-tender, evergreen perennial that’s native to Mexico and the West Indies.

Q. You recently had a question on Moses in the cradle. Since I have grown that plant for nearly 20 years, I’ve found that it is winter-hardy in my Virginia Beach yard. A clump of them in each… ...