Large, vibrant red, buttercup-like flowers with golden eyes cover this popular, low-growing succulent through Spring and Summer.
Otherwise known as purslane, Portulaca Mojave 'Red' is a dry-loving, full-sun succulent that bears shimmering, yellow-centred red flowers on small, dark green leaves tinged with rosy, brown. With a slightly mounding habit reaching up to 20 centimetres, and a ground-hugging trailing spread of up to 40 centimetres, Mohave 'Red' offers an amazing pop of vibrancy to sunny, dry aspects of your outdoor spaces.
Portulaca Mojave 'Red' looks incredible throughout a waterwise garden when mass planted as a groundcover, as an edging plant, in rockeries, or spilling over garden terraces. Plant Mojave 'Red' on its own or in combinations with other dry-loving plants in large hanging baskets, window baskets and feature pots.
Portulacas need lots of sun, very good drainage, and prefers average to poor soil. They tolerate dry periods very well but perform optimally when watered occasionally and sparingly. Deadheading spent blooms is not necessary for growth, but only if needed to tidy the plant.
The flowers of Portulaca Mojave close in the evening and will reopen with the sun of the day. They also close when touched by water, so the preference is to water the soil rather than the plant.
Caution: Harmful to animals if eaten
Wear gloves & wash hands after gardening.
