Gazania, Treasure Flower

Gazania, Treasure Flower 

Species: Gazania ringens, Gazania splendens

This tough plant endures poor soil, baked conditions, and drought beautifully and still produces bold-color, daisy like flowers to all spring.  

It also known as Treasure Flower. The unreal, vividly colored flowers of this South African plant bring a touch of the exotic to the garden. Excellent for sun-baked sites with dry soil. 

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

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

 Gazania is grown as an annual elsewhere and blooms from mid-summer to frost. A spring 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.

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

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

 A typical daisy like flower up to about 10cm across, they are commonly banded with a dark zone around the central disc. Some types may have linear petal strips also. Colours vary from white, cream, yellow, gold, orange to the very dark reds, pale to dark lilac variations are possible also. Flowers are produced on stems up to 25cm in length, these close in the evening or on dark overcast days. Leaves turn upwards at night. Plants require high light for the flowers to open.

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

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

Growing Gazania

Light:                           Sun

Type:                           Annual

Height:                         Under 12 inch

Width:                          To 1 feet wide

Flower Color:              Orange, Pink, Red, White, Yellow

Seasonal Features:     Fall Bloom, Summer Bloom

Problem Solvers:        Drought Tolerant, Groundcover

Special Features:        Attracts Birds, Good for Containers, Low Maintenance

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

Hope you enjoy the beauty!!

Happy Gardening and Always Live your Passion!!

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