Dick Dasterdly

I have quite a few of these spread around the garden and surrounding campo now, all from a handful I pulled out of some sand dunes a few years ago.

AUSSIE RAMBLER™ is a Carpobrotus glaucescens, a giant flowering pig face | Native Shrubs & Groundcovers

Beautiful flowers and lots of them, but where do they go to ?

There one minute, gone the next, almost as though something has eaten them overnight, but having checked it out, not a trace of that and not a trace of even a single fallen petal either.

Bri and Katee

It's also known as Lions Claw, or more colloquially on the Costa Blanca as Torrevieja Weed

The flowers come out in full sun and close up back to a bud in the cool of the night. Next day they will reappear. The flowers last from 3-5 days before dying back completely. The flowers are replaced by others over the course of 2-3 weeks so it appears to be always in bloom. It makes a nasty brown mess of dead woody stems over a period of time.

Ours has been in for 9 years and has spread over a large area, but that is interspersed with dead woody stems. Once the flowering has finished, we intend to dig it out and start again.

To cultivate, take one of the tendrils and weight it down over a plantpot of soil, it will readily form roots. Failing the plantpot, wrap a plastic bag around the stem with soil inside of it.

snikpoh

They also come in yellow as well as the normal pink.

I simply make new plants as you describe and replant every couple of years. They grow so fast that we hardly notice the bare ground after we've removed all the old stems.