Calandrinia spectabilis syn. Calandrinia grandiflora
Rock Purslane
Calandrinia is an easy to grow groundcover type of plant, with thick stems, succulent cylindrical leaves, and saucer-shaped flowers with 5 petals, somewhat like wild rose flowers, in red, purple, orange, yellow, pink, and white, from mid Summer to mid Autumn. The plant thrives in hot, dry, desert-like conditions. Calandrinia spectabilis sports rosettes of lovely, bluish-gray foliage. The smooth-margined and tough spoon-shaped leaves and can produce a dense mound up to 10 inches tall and 4 feet wide.
Contributed by @celtzer
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Full sun
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Occasional watering
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Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Light and free draining
Common name
Rock Purslane
Latin name
Calandrinia spectabilis syn. Calandrinia grandiflora
type
Succulent
family
Montiaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
1.30 M
0.25 M
Calandrinia spectabilis syn. Calandrinia grandiflora
Calandrinia is an easy to grow groundcover type of plant, with thick stems, succulent cylindrical leaves, and saucer-shaped flowers with 5 petals, somewhat like wild rose flowers, in red, purple, orange, yellow, pink, and white, from mid Summer to mid Autumn. The plant thrives in hot, dry, desert-like conditions. Calandrinia spectabilis sports rosettes of lovely, bluish-gray foliage. The smooth-margined and tough spoon-shaped leaves and can produce a dense mound up to 10 inches tall and 4 feet wide.
Propagation by seed
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Fill a seed tray with seed compost,water and allow to drain.Sprinkle seeds over the surface allowing roughly 25mm space between seeds and cover with a thin layer of compost. Put tray in a clear polythene bag and place on a windowsill. When seedlings show remove plastic bag.When the second pair of leaves appear on the seedlings thin out to 50mm spacing by removing the weakest looking plants. After 2 or 3 weeks and when danger of frost has passed plants can then be planted outside into required position.
Planting
From Early Summer TO Early Summer
Plant Portulaca outdoors in early Summer in any well drained soil. They thrive in full sun and named strains will put on a bright display, even in poor summers.
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