A local convenience store has had Portulaca planted in whiskey barrels, and the last couple of years it has come up in cracks in the pavement all around their parking area. In your case where the seeds moved a lot, they might have been blown around (my memory is that they are a bit fluffy) or carried by small mammals or insects for food supplies.

Thanks, Barb, that makes sense. Though I've never noticed the seeds, we certainly do get a lot of wind here along the river. I'll see what happens next year.

I planted portulaca years ago and it comes back here and there every year from the plants I let grow.

Portulaca seems to not mind salt since the store parking lot certainly gets enough of the local sand/salt mix in winter, so it may have had a bit of an advantage this year in your garden where other things didn't like the salt from the storm.

I haven't planted any portulacas for several years and I don't recall them returning in the past, but I've planted several this year, so maybe they'll be back. I did have a Dracaena spike come back this year, quite a surprise. And my windmill palm survived and has already put out three new leaves this year. New England................go figure!

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My portulaca always reseeds, although I haven't planted any in YEARS and now there are just a handful of seedlings here and there.

I used to plant it out by the street, where it is full blazing sun next to the ashphalt, poor rocky soil and hot as a pistol, and it grew beautifully. I used to have to go rescue seedlings from the cracks in the street, lol.

I've got a bunch of seeds - I'll have to scatter some this fall or next spring and get another round going for next year. I love this little bloom!

Dee

Hearing how thus reseeds, I think I may plant done next year. I have an area by the road that could use a bit of color.