Re: Portchulacas self seeding???

My Portchulacas are planted in a bed that gets full afternoon sun.  It is
planted with Tulips and Blue Grape Hyacinths.  The ones that came up this
year are planted next to a cement sidewalk.  In fact they were so close to
the sidewalk itself that I had to move them in order to give them some
space. They come up late and haven't started to  bloom yet.  I noticed that
one of the is just starting to get some heads.  That is okay with me, they
bloom later into the season.  I don't do anything to them to have them
self-seed.  I deadhead them
while they are blooming and toss the heads back into the bed.  The bed
itself was pretty low, so last fall I filled it in with compost and top
soil, and the little buggers managed to come up through a couple more layers
of soil (some of my Blue Grape Hyacinths didn't even do that).  I also have
a small clay flower pot that somehow got a Portchulacas seed in it and every
year a plant comes up in it.  I thought that it had stopped this year, but I
just looked the other day and there are several very tiny plants (among the
dead ladybugs).  I wanted to take some of them out and put them in the
garden, but I am afraid to disturb them if that is where they want to live.

Marie
Z5
Massachusetts
-----Original Message-----
From: B. Luby <bjluby@avalon.nf.ca>
To: myacuzzo@javanet.com <myacuzzo@javanet.com>
Date: Friday, July 10, 1998 3:37 PM
Subject: Portchulacas self seeding???


>Subject: Re: Self-seeded annuals
>
>I've had Portchulacas self seed for the last 2 years.  I love the vividness
>of those little rose-like flowers.
>
> Marie: How did you do it? I, too, love these
>tiny rose-like blooms, but have to buy them
>each year. I have them planted in gritty soil
>in full sun, and watch them closely. At the
>present they are not in bloom, but I am hopeful.
>
>Under what conditions are your portulacas growing????
>
>Barbara
>Zone 3
>Canada
>
>


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