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Portulaca double flowers

Portulaca grandiflora (double flower variety)

Photo by HeatherMiller
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Field Notes

Description:

These flowers are in a variety of colors, and their succulent leaves have allowed them to survive this hot summer and low rainfall. They are one of the only flowers still flowering in my yard (late summer), which was full of flowers this spring.

Notes:

These are very easy to propagate from seed in a shallow bed of seed starting medium. Keep them moist but allow them to drain & dry almost completely between waterings, even as seedlings. The first leaves look like adult leaves only smaller and opposing double leaves. They then grow to leggy-looking. Once they get about 4 leaves, they just grow quickly, filling out the tray. I did not fertilize mine at all until they went into the ground. Then whatever was there, fertilized them. They went in where the ground was hard clay with shallow layers of decaying leaves or mulch, and a few went into large pots. These are from the large pots. The ones in the ground are all dead already.

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