Question
I live in northern Ohio,..I bought a plant  that is called setcreasea purple queen,..it is a trailing plant that looks like a giant wandering jew..do you have any information on it?..I'm not sure if it is a perennial or an anual...Thank you...

Answer
Hi Sandra,
Thanx for your question.  I got the information below from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  I hope this helps.

Setcreasea purpurea, also known as purple heart, is a fairly common houseplant. It is grown primarily for its attractive purple foliage, although it does have small magenta-pink flowers that complement the purple leaves nicely. Purple heart is often grown in a hanging basket to show off its trailing growth habit.

In recent years, a number of houseplants have moved outdoors into annual flower beds. When used outdoors, purple heart does make an attractive groundcover. Its dense growth habit and striking purple foliage make it a good foil for other annual flowers and foliage plants. It also works well in large containers of mixed annuals, where it can spill over the side of the pot.

When grown indoors, purple heart attains the best leaf color if you can give it four or five hours of direct sun daily. Outdoors, a situation in which it receives morning sun and shade from the hot afternoon sun would be ideal. Purple heart will not survive the winter outdoors and is quite frost-sensitive. Move potted plants back indoors or take cuttings from plants grown in the ground before the first frost in the fall.

Water purple heart moderately, perhaps once a week to 10 days when grown as a houseplant. Water thoroughly, and be sure to wet the potting mix until water runs out of the drainage holes in the bottom of the pot. Then do not water again until the top half-inch of the soil has dried out. When grown outdoors in mixed beds or pots, water it along with the rest of your annuals.

Purple heart is easy to propagate by taking 3- or 4-inch cuttings from the tips of stems. Remove the lower set leaves, and insert the cuttings into a soilless seed starting mix or even plain perlite. Place the cuttings where they will receive bright light but no direct sun until they have rooted. Keep the rooting medium barely moist -- like a wrung-out sponge -- until the cuttings have rooted. They should root in about four weeks. Then you can pot them up and treat them as you would mature plants.
copyright Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

I hope this helps.
Tom