Gazania

This tough plant endures poor soil, baked conditions, and drought beautifully and still produces bold-color, daisylike flowers from summer to frost.

A perennial in Zones 9-11 -- the hottest parts of the country -- gazania is grown as an annual elsewhere and blooms from mid-summer to frost. A summer plant often grown as an annual, gazania bears boldly colored daisy-shaped flowers from summer to frost. The flowers appear over toothed dark green or silver leaves (the foliage color differs between varieties). They're great in beds and borders and containers, too.

Plant established seedlings outdoors after all danger of frost has passed. Do not fertilize, and keep soil on the dry side.

Light:

Sun

Zones:

8-10

Plant Type:

Annual,Perennial

Plant Height:

To 1 foot tall

Plant Width:

To 1 foot wide

Landscape Uses:

Containers,Beds & Borders,Slopes,Groundcover

Special Features:

Flowers,Attracts Butterflies,Drought Tolerant,Easy to Grow

Top Varieties

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'Daybreak Red Stripe' gazania

Gazania 'Daybreak Red Stripe' bears golden-yellow flowers with a bold stripe running down each petal. It grows 10 inches tall.
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'Daybreak Tiger Stripes Mix' gazania

Gazania 'Daybreak Tiger Stripes Mix' bears yellow, pink, orange, and cream flowers with a contrasting band down each petal. It grows 10 inches tall.
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'Kiss White' gazania

Gazania 'Kiss White' offers lots of creamy-white flowers all summer long over dark green leaves.
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'Sunbather's Sunset' gazania

Gazania 'Sunbather's Sunset' offers amber-orange double flowers. It grows 18 inches tall and wide.
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'Talent Mix' gazania

Gazania 'Talent Mix' offers blooms in shades of cream, pink, orange, and yellow over fuzzy gray-green foliage.
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Garden Plans

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Easy Sidewalk Garden Plan

Plant It With

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California poppy

Soften gazania's bold flowers with the delicate blooms of California poppy. Both thrive in hot, dry sites.

Lisianthus

Dwarf varieties of purple-flowering lisianthus look beautiful against gold and orange gazania varieties, especially those with fuzzy silver leaves.

Pentas

Daisy-shape gazania flowers look beautiful against the full heads of pentas. Plus, butterflies love both plants.

Propagation

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Seed