Portulaca is a reliable garden friend that brightens our summer. I grow this long-blooming annual as a low border in front of taller flowers such as cosmos, garden phlox, lupine and daisies. It’s a ...

The Portulaca genus of plants is in the Portulacaceae family, which includes about 400 species. Forty different species of the Portulaca genus exist throughout tropical and warm temperate locations.

Prasannavathani, a homemaker from Neyveli in Tamil Nadu, is busy packing stem cuttings of portulacas and purslanes from her roof-top garden to despatch to Bengaluru, Chennai and Mainpuri (Uttar ...