There’s a place in every backyard for the cheery South African natives identified as perennial African daisies (Osteospermum). Innumerable types exist with colours ranging from whites and creams to blues, purples and mauve. The same daisies, planted en-masse, bloom with fragile grace from patio baskets with non-chalant extravagance along path and California freeways. Daisies that are perennial prosper in the Environment Zones of Sunset 8, 9 and 12 the array is expanded by some kinds.
Freeway Daisy
The free Way, or trailing, African daisy (O. fruticosum) produces dark lavender daisies, with darker facilities, on plants 6 to 12″ tall. Plants stems, covering a 2- to 4 foot patch of backyard in flowering splendor during cool seasons, blooming most useful in a year. Taller hybrids contain the purple-flowered âAfrican Queenâ and âBurgundy.â âWhirlygigâ has blue and white flowers, and âSeasideâ is white and light-pink. Salt- and drought-tolerant free Way daisies consider ocean breezes in stride.
Symphony Collection
Symphony series (O. Symphony series) crops are quick growers, forming 3-foot-wide clumps of compact, evergreen foliage up to 8″ large. Symphony sequence African daisies tolerate heat better than other daisies, increasing the cycle to contain large flowering throughout seasons, as well as in great climate. The cheery daisies, with dark-blue facilities, come in several named types, including “Cream Symphony,” “Lemon Symphony” and âOrange Symphony.â These colorful bloomers execute undeterred by drought or salty ocean air.
Blue and White Daisybush
Blue and white daisy bushes (O. ecklonis) generally increase significantly taller than other kinds, with crops as large as 5 feet tall. Long-stemmed flowers go above above 4 foot- clumps of bushy. Coloration, with white, lavender-blue-backed rays radiating from dark blue facilities, marks the species. âLavender Mistâ blooms from spring through fall and is particularly cold-tolerant. Compact Serenity collection crops bloom through the seasons, their cream-coloured flowers displaying purple- deep facilities, ringed. Passion Blend types are compact growers with sky-blue-centered white, purple or pink flowers.
Award-Winning African Daisies
O. jucundum African daisies acquired the Royal Horticultural Societyâs Award of Garden Merit. Rooting stems up to 20-inches large and spread to to create clumps 2 to 3-feet across. Purple-centered, 2 inch flowers differ in colour. If deadheaded, plants bloom in spring and fall, and through the duration of the latest months. âLangtreesâ shows purple-pink rays and sunny yellow facilities. Cold-tolerant “Purple Mountainâ (O. jucundum compactum) succeeds in Sunset’s Environment Zones 2-B through 2-4. Bright -purple daisies dance through mid-summer above clumps in spring, repeating their show in drop.