Product Details
Seeds per packet: 15
Welcome the spirit of summer into your garden with Portulaca Happy Hour Mixture. This vibrant series of portulaca offers a lively burst of color that transforms your outdoor space into a joyful oasis. These low-growing wonders feature a stunning array of blossoms that flourish under the sun’s warm embrace. The Portulaca Happy Hour collection showcases a palette of cheerful hues that open up like cheerful petals, inviting pollinators to partake in the festivities. With their trailing growth habit, Portulaca Happy Hour is an excellent choice for hanging baskets, borders, and containers, adding a splash of vibrant beauty to every corner of your outdoor sanctuary.
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, Heat
Bloom Season: Early Summer, Late Spring, Late Summer, Summer
Plant Species: Flowers
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Water Needs: Low
Planting Season: Spring, Summer