Late Summer Color

These Portulaca flowers come from a tiny seed, no larger than a grain of pepper, but they sure add color to the late summer garden palette.

My job now is to pick off the little seed capsules so we have a crop next year. So far I have seen white, pale yellow, golden, pink, magenta, orange and just about everything short of blue emerging from my past seed savings.

I recommend this flower, even if you don't want get all OCD and chase down every single seed for next year. In addition, Mother Nature has a thing called "self-sowing," which means let's the seeds fall where they may.

--Bernice