• Eventual height: 0.5m
  • Eventual spread: 0.9m

Osteospermum jucundum

African daisy

RHS award of garden merit
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This perennial is semi-evergreen so it can lose some of its leaves in winter. In colder regions or more exposed gardens, it may lose them all, but then fresh new growth appears again in spring.

  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moderately fertile, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Hardiness: frost hardy (may need winter protection in cold areas)

    A popular, spreading perennial, with cheerful, open daisies of palest lilac or white with purple centres. The back of each petal is a darker smokey lilac, and as the flower opens and closes with the sun, this contrast adds to the plant's charm. This is one of the hardiest osteospermums, and it keeps on producing an uplifting display of flowers from early summer through to autumn. It looks lovely planted en masse in containers on a sunny terrace, or in a wide herbaceous border.

  • Garden care: Protect plants in very cold areas and lift and divide congested clumps in autumn or spring.
  • Pets: Harmful if eaten
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