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Portulaca lutea, Portulaca villosa, Portulaca molokiniensis

Getting Ready to Sell a Bunch of Plants

Since we have been in our yard a lot lately - cleaning, weeding, fertilizing, and getting ready to put up the gazebo - I've been looking at the plants I definitely want to keep and identifying those that I feel should be moved on to other homes.  At the upcoming CSSH meeting, I'm going to have a bunch of Sanseveria, Portulaca, Echionopsis, and Euphorbia (medusa head!!!).  Here are some pictures of the Portulaca molokiniensis - small pots will go for $7, the larger individuals (they are clumped in the pictures but will be separated and sold individually) will be $14.  These are the small pots (4").

These are the larger ones (again - not the whole pot, there are three plants in there)

Portulaca villosa Flower

Recent activity -

Repotted Portulaca lutea

And I've been meaning to repot this one for a really long time.

It also got a trim (of the dead sections).  

Close Ups of the Portulaca molokiniensis

Latest pictures of the oldest ihi plant I have in the backyard -

One of my favorites!!!

Three of Four Native Portulacas

I found this plant while at Home Depot - Portulaca villosa

With this addition, I now have three of the four endemic or indigenous Portulacas of the Hawaiian Islands.  I need to find a Portulaca sclerocarpa -

On the Ground -

I can't seem to consistently germinate my ihi seeds -

I've gotten six seeds to sprout in this setup, but the last batch hasn't been doing much if anything (details on the batch that germinated are in older posts - just look up Portulaca molokiniensis).  That said, I was cleaning up the backyard area where I keep most of my xeric plants and I looked down to see if there were any weeds I needed to pull.

Instead I saw these popping up all over the place.  I'm not sure if these are P. molokiniensis or P. lutea since I have both plants above on the bench and both plants have been spilling seeds all over.  I'll just let them grow out a bit more then transplant them.  A little further over, I even saw some  purslane/hogweed growing - this corner is a veritable nursery!