Lioney smells portulaca
Lioney is smelling one of my first portulaca or moss rose. I grow these in the front of my house, and I find the other plants are bullies to this one, meaning they will grow right over and on top of these self-seeding annuals, so I have to clear the others away to make room for these lovely flowers. They don’t need a lot of rain (they have these fat leaves that store water), but they do love the sun. Lioney is a Webkinz (do you need me to explain a Webkinz?).
Another view of the portulaca:
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 am
Sweet photo. Your soil looks quite sandy. Is it?
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
Oh, dear, Ilana-Davita. That’s the concrete of our sidewalks that you are seeing. No, our soil is full of clay. In the 18th century, there used to be pottery factories near here.
I grow the portulaca right near the walkways.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
Leora, adorable lioney and very pretty protulaca(sp?) Great Weekend Snapshot!
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
It really is a lovely flower!
And your comment in my blog gmade me smile!
I have plenty of water photos because I love them too!
Have a good, new week!
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I thought it was a rose at first, until I saw the leaves, and then I saw you named it a moss rose! That figures! It’s beautiful!
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The cool thing about portulaca is that you can take a small cutting, practically throw it on the dirt, and within a few weeks it will have regenerated into blooming groundcover (low water usage, too).
Alas, those of us in Israel will have to wait until after Rosh haShana.
ALN
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
ALN, yes, I guess portulaca is mediterranean flower. My friend who taught me about portulaca said the Italians in South Boston love to grow this flower.
I wrote a post about no deadheading during Shmitta. Hard on the little portulaca, as they need to be separated from the bigger plant bullies, as I call them.
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Pretty flower and cute to have the Webkinz there. I was got in the way of a preteen trying to get to the Webkinz at the toy store I like to stop in and look. It was madness..
August 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Oooh, that’s really pretty! Love the pic of Lioney smelling the flower.