Growing Portulaca is an easy way to add a tropical flair to your garden. The genus Portulaca belongs to Portulacaceae family, they are native to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Healthy Plants are dwarf with trailing habit, Leaves are cylindrical and fleshy, small and pointed, and branches are round and succulent. Flowers are with brilliant colours available in shades of white, purple, yellow, red, pink, orange, lavender, and crimson etc. Flowers open late in the morning and close in the afternoon and they are closed on cloudy days also. Sunny situation are necessary for growth and flowering. Portulaca flowers are truly beautiful in various garden and landscape settings and have been used to beautify old structures and stone walkways, as they grow well in the old cracks in the structures where winds have deposited just enough soil to support them. Just give them full sun and any well-drained soil. Water them after Healthy Planting and watch them go. If Healthy Plants get scraggly, you can cut them back. Don t fertilize too much; it will encourage Healthy Plants to produce thick foliage .