Botanical Name: Osteosprmum x

Height: 12″
Width: 12″
Exposure: Full Sun
Performance: Annual
Bloom: Yellow & White (February-June)

Looking to add a splash of color to your early season spring garden? Osteospermums add a certain liveliness to waken a wintered garden.

Otherwise known as the Cape Daisy, the South African native has a unique luminosity to rejuvenate and make a garden shine. Here in Texas, Osteos take kindly to the humidity and enjoy full sun displaying a collection of blooms from February to June. These sun-loving flowers burst open in the morning and close in the evenings. This cool season annual grows vigorously when planted in 60-degree weather and well-drained soil. Be careful, these plants are vulnerable to frost.

Attractive yet utilitarian, this plant produces an abundance of ornate daisy-like flowers useful in a number of ways. They make excellent elements to garden beds, are knockouts in containers, and go great mixed into borders. In addition, it’s hard to resist picking the stunning blooms atop its dense, compact foliage for a festive floral arrangement. Needless to say, Osteospermums complete an early spring garden. We grow a number of more adaptive, heat hardy varieties ranging in an assortment of colors:

Asti Series – Lavender Shades, Purple, White and Purple Bi-color

3D Series – new series, true double flower, animated, button-like blooms, stay open all day and all night.

Dalina Series – Leona: a bright sunny flower with a golden center. Tosca: bright, incandescent petals glisten
yellowish-orange with a bronze center.

Ostica Series – Lemon: large, bright lemon flower with distinct yellow and dark centers. Orange: large, orange petals with purplish-blue eyes.

Sunny Series – Amanda: rich amber eye with creamy centers to lemony tips. Underneath lies rust, dark brown petals. Cambria: dark, deep lilac with a rich purple center. Sheila: pink with dark stripes fade to yellowish tips and an orange eye. Underneath is a darker pinkish-red with brown stripes.

Voltage Yellow – high-impact, lighting yellow flower, blooms longer
Voltage is the boldest, brightest and the first Osteosprmum to ring in spring. It’s the perfect flower for glowing cool season color. Its compact and uniform shape is ideal for containers, hanging baskets, or the landscape. Voted ‘Arboretum Approved’ in February 2011 by the Dallas Arboretum Trail Gardens, ‘Voltage Yellow’, was honored as their plant of the month. Gardens can’t resist these luminous daisy-like flowers.