Portulaca oleracea Pazzaz Nano Orange

The Portulaca 'Pazzaz Nano Orange' is a variety of compact vegetable purslane, very floriferous, perfect for adding colour to summer compositions. It is a small annual plant with succulent foliage, drought-resistant, not demanding in terms of soil, really easy to succeed with. This Nano Orange variety offers light orange flowers from spring to summer, well open on a golden heart. Perfect as ground cover, in rockeries, but also in small hanging baskets and planters.

The Portulaca oleracea 'Pazzaz Nano Orange' belongs to the purslane family. Its ancestor, the vegetable purslane, is a very common herbaceous annual plant in gardens, especially in hot places and degraded or very compacted soil, particularly dry in summer. It is found particularly in the South of France and throughout the Mediterranean basin. The varieties of the 'Pazzaz Nano' series have been selected for their increased floribundance, their larger and more colourful flowers remaining open from morning until evening, as well as their particularly compact habit.

This 'Pazzaz Nano Orange' portulaca quickly forms a prostrate clump of creeping and branched stems, not exceeding 10 cm (4in) in height and 40 cm (16in) in spread. The green stems bear small, elongated, lanceolate and fleshy leaves, of a bright green hue, sometimes bordered with copper tones. Flowering is renewed from late spring until September. The 3-4 cm (1-2in) diameter flowers are composed of crumpled petals like silk. Their colour is a fairly light orange. A sunny exposure is required for them to fully open.

Plant the 'Pazzaz Nano Orange' purslane in rockeries, borders, hanging baskets or pots, alone or in combination with other annual flowers. In large masses or in small touches, this plant, so undemanding and cheerful, will liven up any sunny corner without requiring much attention. This dense and semi-creeping plant is a good ground cover, to be planted in borders and flower beds in the company of plants that thrive in dry soil, such as dwarf artemisias, love-in-a-mist, thyme, California poppies and sedums, for example.

Note: Attention, our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, repot and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before being installed outdoors once the risk of frost has been definitively eliminated.