Product Details
Introducing Portulaca Happy Trails Mix, a delightful series of trailing succulents that brings a touch of vibrant color and easy elegance to your outdoor spaces. The Happy Trails series showcases low-growing, spreading plants adorned with colorful blooms that resemble small, cheerful jewels. With their drought-tolerant nature and cascading growth habit, Portulaca Happy Trails become a versatile choice for ground covers, containers, hanging baskets, and rock gardens. These succulents weave a tapestry of natural beauty, transforming your garden into a haven of colorful allure.
Product Features:
- Colorful Flowers: Moss rose produces small, rose-like flowers in a wide range of colors, including shades of red, pink, orange, yellow, white, and even multicolored varieties. The flowers open during the day and close in the evening.
- Succulent Foliage: The leaves of moss rose are succulent and cylindrical, helping the plant store water and tolerate drought conditions.
- Low-Growing Habit: Moss rose is typically low-growing and spreads along the ground, making it a popular choice for ground covers, rock gardens, and container plantings.
- Heat and Drought Tolerance: Moss rose is well-adapted to hot and arid environments, making it an excellent choice for xeriscaping and landscapes with limited water availability.
- Easy to Grow: Moss rose is relatively easy to grow, requiring well-drained soil and plenty of sunlight. It’s often used in landscapes and gardens to provide bursts of color throughout the summer.
- Attracts Pollinators: The colorful flowers of moss rose can attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies to your garden.
- Self-Seeding: Moss rose can often self-seed, producing new plants in the following growing season.
Plant Information:
- Scientific Name: Portulaca grandiflora
- Common Name: Moss Rose, Purslane
- Blooming Season: Late Spring, Summer
- Plant Habit: Mounded
- Spacing: 10 – 14″ (25 – 36cm)
- Height: 8 – 10″ (20 – 25cm)
- Width: 10 – 12″ (25 – 30cm)
- Exposure: Sun
- Seed supplied as: Raw, Multi-Seed Pellets.
- Plug crop time: 4 to 5 weeks
- Transplant to finish: 5 weeks
Product Categories
Height: 0-12 Inches
Life Cycle: Annual
Use: Bee Garden, Butterfly Garden, Containers, Edging, Ground Cover
Resistance: Drought
Bloom Season: Early Summer, Late Spring, Late Summer, Summer
Plant Species: Flowers
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Water Needs: Low
Planting Season: Spring, Summer