Cape Daisies


Osteospermums are easy to grow in the Bay Area. You can pretty much ignore them and they make nice mounding perennials with lots of spring and summer flowers. They’re called, generically enough, Cape Daisy since they come from South Africa. And they’re daisies, i.e. in the Aster Family, Asteraceae, a very popular flowering family that includes Sunflowers, hence the other name of the family, the Sunflower Family. Daisies, Asters and Sunflowers!

These particular daisies are more closely related to the Calendulas, as they are included in the Calenduleae Tribe within Asteraceae.

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Osteospermum “3D Double Purple” so named for the obvious reasons.

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Osteospermum “Mara” is a pretty copper daisy.

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Osteospermum “Nasinga Purple” – Now finally we get to the famous Spoon Flowers! So named for the obvious reasons.

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Osteospermum “Nasinga White” has been the most popular of the Cape Daisies here at the nursery this spring.


    
    
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