If you want an easy houseplant that produces plenty of pretty flowers and lots of drama, oxalis, commonly called shamrock plant, should be on your list. Oxalis in any color can't wait to start blooming in late winter. Purple shamrocks have pinkish flowers, with white flowers more common on green shamrocks. Happy plants will bloom intermittently year round.
That is, unless you forget to water a plant and it collapses and then shrivels up. This is the drama part. You think your purple shamrock is dead, so you stash it in an out-of-the way place, maybe on its way to the trash can, and forget about it. Then fate intervenes, somehow fills the container with moisture, and your lost darlings arise from the dead!
They were merely resting on their pips, you see.
Native to South America and Africa (there are several species), oxalis plants seem to relish a period of dormancy, whether intentional or accidental. A good parch will send them into a resting mode, as will shearing back all the leaves. I once did this as a spider mite intervention, and the new leaves came on totally clean.
