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Portulaca flowers are truly beautiful in various garden and landscape settings and have been used to beautify old structures and stone walkways, as they grow well in the old cracks in the structures where winds have deposited just enough soil to support them. Portulaca are beautiful growing around the stones of a garden path with their mix of beautiful colors of pink, red, yellow, orange, deep lavender, cream and white. COMMON NAME FLOWER COLOURS BLOOM TIME HEIGHT DIFFICULTY Moss rose, Pigweed, Purslane This plant carry yellow, orange, red, and bright pink. White, cream colour Summer Season 8 inches tall, spreading up to one foot Easy to grow Planting and care Portulaca l love it hot and dry. You can plant them in poor, even sandy, soil. They also adapt to average garden conditions. Just give them full sun and any well-drained soil. Water them after planting and watch them go. They ll grow 4 to 8 inches high and spread 6 to 18 inches. You don t even have to deadhead. If plants get scraggly, you can cut them back. Don t fertilize too much; it will encourage plants to produce thick foliage but fewer flowers. SUNLIGHT SOIL WATER TEMPERATURE FERTILIZER Full sunlight Prefer sandy well drained soils. When they are watered just a light watering will do as their root zone is very shallow. The plants can also be started indoor at 70 to 85°F (21 to 29°C). There s no need for fertilizer with the portulaca, as it will do fine on its own.