#purslane flower

[caveundertree]

Yard flowers

Cosmos and Purslane

[faguscarolinensis]

Portulaca x 'Happy Hour Deep Red' / 'Happy Hour Deep Red' Purslane at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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Purslane prefers parsnips providentially. Another set of p words? Not today, sorry. Note the gestational concubinical quaternial question posed by the juxtaposition of post-modernism and prefixtualism represented in this picture by the hard visual background and soft sonorous foreground.

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Hullo, hi, नमस्कार, I have never ever posted on tumblr before (hope I'm doing this right), but now that some cool people follow me on here (for some reason??? hello??? thank you???) I felt it right to make my first post.

I do not have much to offer, so please enjoy this glimpse of our garden 😅💜

(Bass inhe nazar na lage 🌑🌑🌑)

राधे-राधे । 🙏🏼

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🌸🌱☁️(x)

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More garden flowers.  Cochise County, Arizona, September 2022.

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Treehouse Gardens

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[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Succulents Part 8--Portulaca, Euphorbia, and Spergularia

Succulents are a wide variety of plants, spanning multiple orders. Some have succulent leaves while others have succulent stems. Cactuses are succulents, but not all succulents are cactuses. Defining what exactly makes a succulent is a little tricky. For example, cabbage leaves are considered by some to be succulent, but tulip and onion leaves apparently aren't.

All photos mine. Unedited except for the fourth one down on the left, which was taken in RAW format and edited from there to bring out the colour while maintaining the contrast of light and shadow.

There are Portulaca cultivars that are popular in gardens as annuals. But the weed known as purslane (second photo down on the right) is a Portulaca species with a nearly global native range. It's edible (has a mild salty taste), makes a nice ground cover in my opinion, and is unfairly maligned.

But don't mistake it for Euphorbia (spurge)! Because that is poisonous. Some cultivars look rather nice in the garden, though. One tell is that Euphorbia species will leek a milky sap if you cut it whereas purslane will not.

Spergularia (sea spurrey, sand spurrey, etc.) have very tiny pink flowers that you might notice if you look down on the grass from time to time if your city doesn't use pesticides. They are edible but I haven't tried them.

[lunarlotuscove]

Blooms ready for summer

Saturday June 15th 2024 12:04-12:22pm

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A Seasonal Green Salad (Vegan)

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Portulaca umbraticola / Wingpod Purslane at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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Mello Yello Purslane puts the flour in flower while stirring the pot that makes the kettle look black and jumping out of the frying pan onto the induction stove, and not burning up because induction stoves aren't hot.

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A simple salad of lamb's quarters with purslane, wildflowers, oil and vinegar

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