PORTULACAS.
A DRY WEATHER PLANT.
At the end of this month the opportunity should be seized for sowing portulacas in the open. These brilliant little flowers revel in dry and sunrv weather; there are few plants which will more enjoy such conditions. Seed should be sown in sandy and if possible on a raised border. Excellent effects are also to be obtained by sowing this subject in cracks in stone paving which have been filled with sandy" soil, nor should their use for sunny window-boxes be overlooked. Just sufficient water to cncourage germination should be allowed and no mora. Not tho least fascinating feature about portulacas is that flowers with widelycontrasting colours occur- on the same plant.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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117PORTULACAS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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