I think they look fantastic! If you have other areas, in pots or ground, you could snip pieces of the Portulaca & just stick 'em in the dirt. They'll take root & start new patches for you. If put in ground, they're likely to drop seeds for a new crop next year, so place accordingly, and be ready to look for the grass-like sprouts next year. Looks so similar to grass the first week or 2.

hey ... i remember this porch.. those boxes ..

didnt i tell you before.. you might have been over planting.. lol ..

live and learn.. for next year...

but they look super now.. and i wouldnt mess with them ..

as long as there is enough soil.. to hold enough water.. i would not be screwing around in there.. disturbing the roots of all the plants ... to remove one ... you might destroy all 3 ...

think of it this way .. the roots are probably as tangled up as the plants above ... and you could do some real damage to the roots off all .. its not worth the risk

ken

okay, I'll leave them and see what happens

njitgrad........I really like them this way......they will hang down beautifully!

Looking forward to that, TY!

Here's some Portulacas I'm using as ground cover. Bought a 6-pack of moss roses (P. grandiflora,) and the tiny pink blooms are Paraguayan purslane, P. amilis, found in the lawn.

I've put them close enough to make a solid carpet soon.

Here's a P. amilis that hasn't been rescued from the lawn yet:

I've put them in several areas, and probably moved about 300 individual plants @ this point. Every time it rains, I pull more up the next day & move to be ground cover in new beds where grass has been dug up this year, ground is naked.

I haven't found a source that doesn't say this plant is an annual, but I'm not sure of that at all. Some of the plants don't seem like seedlings that are only a few months old. Should be able to tell in the spring, now that there's tons of them in non-lawn areas. Has anyone else "played" with this plant?

I also stuck some of the smaller ones (that definitely seem like new seedlings) through the front of this wire mesh container, a few weeks ago. They've had a harder time recovering, 1st bloom today.

How are your pots going, Njitgrad? I ended up LOVing mine, glad I used them so heavily. The ones stuck through the mesh of the planter haven't fared as well. I may have overestimated the affinity of that species for being able to be dry. Cuttings might have gone better, IDK.