Beautiful Work Purslane Trailing Annual
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Purslane trailing annual. Purslane blooms from mid-June to September when the first frosts come. Growth habit is sprawling to creeping make a mat of foliage 2 tall. Its labeled Purslane Trailing Annual.
To prepare a suitable substrate connect the garden soil with sand in a ratio of 15. Plant in groups of 6 or 9 for full bold gardens. Flowering is plentiful but each individual flower blooms in one day then withers and binds the fruit.
The leaves are a mix of green white and touches of pink. Originally coming from India it was grown as a food source many centuries ago. I purchase a Purslane plant from Lowes.
Take a low container at the bottom of which there are holes for drainage and put a layer of small expanded clay or gravel in it. Purslane is my favorite summer plant and I start looking for its appearance in the Phoenix nurseries in late May. A trailing dense ground cover with fleshy leaves up to 1 inch long that occur singularly along brittle red or green stems.
Oleracea have flat paddle-like leaves while the leaves of moss rose P. Mojave Fuchsia Portulaca umbraticola DPORMOJAFU USPP 32614 Can PBRAF. Grandiflora are more pointed and needle-like.
What Is Purslane. Purslane is a good source of Omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamins A and C. What do you think.