🌼 A Garden Full of Cheerful Daisies
Go Crazy for Daisies! With so many bright, colourful varieties available there’s room in every garden for these easy-to-grow superstars and as a bedding plant in garden borders there’s one to suit any setting.
Daisies are ‘open’ flowers containing lots of pollen, perfect for pollinators like butterflies and bees. A sunny position in well-drained soil is the ideal site. Heavy clay or sandy soil should be improved before planting with a mulch of organic compost.
🌼 Leucanthemum (Shasta Daisy)
The perennial Leucanthemum (Shasta Daisy) is a must-have in a wildlife garden as butterflies adore it. Available with long-flowering double, single or fringed blooms on sturdy stems. Cut back after flowering to prevent the plant becoming straggly and divide the clumps every 2/3 years.
🌼 Osteospermum (Cape / African Daisy)
Indigenous Osteopermums, also known as the Cape or African Daisy, are cheerful, versatile and available in a large range of colours and varieties. Planted in well-composted soil in full sun they look stunning in flower borders and containers. Deadhead regularily for continuous flowering. After a few seasons the plant will become leggy and need replacing. Osteopermums need minimal watering so are ideal for a water-wise garden.
🌼 Echinacea purpurea (Coneflower)
The colourful perennial Echinacea Purpurea (Cone flower), has many cultivars and attracts both butterflies and bees. Plant in full sun in rich free-draining soil and divide overgrown clumps in Winter. When the flowers fade they reveal its characteristic cone-shaped seed head, loved by birds.
🌼 Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan)
Ever-popular Rudbekias (Black-eyed Susan) with vividly coloured flowers of lemony-yellow, orange and bronze will attract a host of pollinators bringing vibrancy to the garden, and providing birds with a valuable food source of seeds in Autumn.
🌼 Aster (Michaelmas Daisy)
The Aster (Michaelmas Daisy) is a very hardy indigenous plant which will grow in full sun or semi-shade. It has small to medium sized blooms available in a selection of colours.
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Their expertise lies in creating water-wise, indigenous, edible and wildlife-friendly gardens.