Tag: portulaca

A Zillion Zinnias

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One of my earliest memories involves my grandmother’s “zillion” zinnias. She had rows of zinnias in her vegetable garden, large zinnias overflowing an old tire near the back door, and zinnias around the mailbox–placed there to welcome the rural mail carrier each day. Who can resist these beauties?  The colorful …

Portulaca Proud

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The portulaca is blooming again–and boy, is it a stunner. I have used portulaca all the traditional ways—concrete pots, flower beds, and as an under-planting for larger flowering plants like zinnias. Once I stuck a handful of plants into the hollowed-out portion of an old stump. That ended up looking …

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