{"title":"African Daisy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrican daisies (Osteospermum) deliver more flower per dollar than almost anything else in the garden centre: sheets of jewel-toned daisies from late winter through summer on tough silver-green mounds. This page lists every osteospermum available from our partner farms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Serenity series carries the main display, bred for compact habit and long flowering: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/osteospermum-serenity-red\"\u003eSerenity Red\u003c\/a\u003e, Serenity Bronze, Coral Magic and Rose Magic, whose flowers shift tone as they age. The 3D types add fully double anemone-centred blooms that stay open in dull weather when single daisies close: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/osteospermum-3d-double-yellow-tm\"\u003e3D Double Yellow\u003c\/a\u003e and 3D Deep Sun. Blue Eyed Beauty and Blushing Beauty pair painted petals with dark centres, with Power Packed Blue and Lavender Shades filling out the cool end of the palette.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing notes: treat African daisies as short-lived perennial colour, brilliant for two to four years, and plant them where they get full sun and sharp drainage; they flower hardest slightly hungry and dry, and sulk in rich wet soil. Shear plants back by a third after each big flush to trigger the next one, and give them a light feed in late winter as buds set. They shrug off coastal wind, sandy soil and dry summers, which is why they carpet so many beach-suburb verges. In frost-prone districts, a warm wall keeps winter flowers coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMass them at the front of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flowering\"\u003eflowering beds\u003c\/a\u003e, run them along paths with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/low-maintenance\"\u003elow-maintenance\u003c\/a\u003e strappies behind, or pot them for instant colour. Every order ships farm-direct with flat $99 delivery across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, a $399 minimum order, and the 30-Day Healthy Plant Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"osteospermum-3d-deep-sun","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum 3D Deep Sun (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost African daisies shut their flowers at dusk and on overcast days, which is why a bed can look half empty on the exact weekend you wanted it looking full. The 3D series was bred around that problem: the blooms carry a raised double centre that holds its shape instead of folding shut, so the display reads more consistently through dull weather. The name points to the warm end of the colour range rather than the mauves and purples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreat it as a fast but short-lived perennial. It flowers hardest in its first two seasons, with a spring and an autumn peak, then goes woody at the base. Shear the whole plant back by about a third after the main flush and it pushes new growth from the sides instead of sprawling. Full sun is not negotiable; in shade you get leaves and almost no flower. Drainage matters more than watering, so raised beds, gritty soil and pots suit it far better than heavy clay that stays wet all winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309252391281,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309252424049,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/3PdQj69VYmnfu7YnvkzeN_WbdV2T8m.jpg?v=1787628610"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-blushing-beauty","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Blushing Beauty (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo colours sit on the one flower here, a soft pink wash over a paler base with a darker eye at the centre, and the balance shifts with temperature and with how much sun the bud opened under. That variation is normal in Osteospermum, not a fault in the plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it where the flowers will actually be seen up close: pot displays by a doorway, the front row of a mixed border, a courtyard planter. Massed at a distance the two-tone effect is lost and a single strong colour does more work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt stalls in the worst of summer humidity and picks up again as nights cool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnails go for the soft new growth in spring well before they touch older foliage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld plants go bare and woody at the base, so take cuttings or replace rather than trying to renovate hard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, free-draining soil and a light feed after each flush is the whole maintenance program. Available in 140mm and 170mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309254095217,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309254127985,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/4GlwY8loJGt2R8DWiJFCE_8wLzSTOY.jpg?v=1787628610"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-lavender-shades","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Lavender Shades (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlant this one in a drift rather than as a single specimen. The lavender to mauve tone is quiet at close range and only really registers when there are enough plants to make a block of colour, so a run of five or seven along a path edge does far more than one pot on its own. It sits well against grey foliage and against the blue-greens of coastal natives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsteospermum is a South African daisy and it wants what that suggests: sun all day, sharp drainage, and no rich wet soil. Through a Melbourne or Adelaide winter it slows right down and can look tired, then flushes again as the days lengthen. Light frost tends to burn foliage rather than kill an established plant, but in cold inland districts treat it as a seasonal planting and expect to replace it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly the 140mm size is grown for this one, and from a single farm, so availability moves around. Delivery runs to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA at a flat $99, on orders from $399.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 140mm, at $16.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309255012721,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/TReoRVTNH8k9BZtBYBmFB_9ZE1MffZ.jpg?v=1787628611"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-power-packed-blue","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Power Packed Blue (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlue is a stretch in this genus. What you actually get is a deep violet to purple-blue ray with a dark metallic centre, and it reads considerably more blue in the garden than it does in a photograph on a phone screen. Against white or silver plantings it is one of the more useful cool tones available in a low mounding daisy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows with real vigour, so give it more room than the pot size suggests. Crowded plants trap humidity in the crown, and that is where downy mildew and stem rot start, particularly through a wet coastal summer. Space them so air moves between plants, water at the base rather than over the top, and keep mulch back off the stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeadheading is the difference between a plant that flowers for months and one that flowers for weeks. Snip spent blooms back to a leaf joint rather than pulling the petals off and leaving the stalk. Grown in 140mm and 170mm across several of our farms, so it is one of the easier osteospermums to get in quantity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309256159601,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309256192369,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/If1swh7hg9VwkIrWgYjEC_yFlCO9tz.jpg?v=1787628610"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-serenity-bronze","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Serenity Bronze (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you have run out of patience with pink and purple daisies, bronze is the reason this series exists. The colour sits in the warm apricot to bronze register, often with a lighter petal reverse, and it deepens in cool weather then softens as the season warms. Expect it to move rather than hold one fixed shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Serenity types were selected for compactness and for standing up to landscape use, which in practice means they mound instead of sprawling and they hold flower close to the foliage. That makes them workable in a narrow strip planting or a car park bed where a rangy plant would flop out over the kerb within a season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun, gritty free-draining ground, and go easy on the nitrogen. Rich feeding buys you a big soft plant carrying very few flowers. A trim after the spring flush keeps the base furnished instead of bare. It combines well with grey Convolvulus, Gazania or dwarf Westringia, all of which want the same dry, sunny, hard-drained position.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309256618353,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309256651121,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/D_x7UBdUfEN9JPjzKbdTZ_nPXSEoTL.jpg?v=1787628611"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-serenity-coral-magic","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Serenity Coral Magic (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagic in the name refers to the colour change, not to the marketing. Flowers in the Magic types open in one shade and age into another over several days, so a plant in full flush carries a spread of tones at once rather than one flat colour. On the coral form that runs from warm apricot and coral through to a deeper rose as the blooms mature, and the shift is most obvious when nights are cool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe practical consequence is that the plant will rarely look exactly like the label photograph on any given day, which catches people out. Buy it for the range, not to match one specific tone in a scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything else is standard Osteospermum care. Full sun, drainage before water, deadhead through the flush, and a light shear once the main show finishes. It sulks in shade and rots in soggy ground. Grown in both 140mm and 170mm, which lets you set a larger plant as the anchor of a pot and fill in around it with smaller stock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309256749425,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309256782193,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/SQ6UVCxOCM03RQdB-I7L-_NlvBlhS5.jpg?v=1787628611"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-serenity-red","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Serenity Red (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo not expect fire-engine red. Red in Osteospermum sits closer to a deep raspberry, wine or brick tone, it holds that depth best in cooler weather, and it usually lightens a shade under hard summer sun. Knowing that up front saves a lot of disappointment on the day the first flowers open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe darkness is worth planning around. Deep reds vanish against dark mulch or red brickwork from more than a few metres away, so put this one where there is something pale behind it: rendered walls, light gravel, silver foliage, or a pale pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the rest of the Serenity range it makes a low mound, flowers heaviest in spring, takes a rest through midsummer heat, then gives a second run as autumn cools. Cut it back lightly between flushes rather than hacking it once a year. Water it the way you would a Mediterranean plant, a deep soak once the soil has dried rather than a daily sprinkle, and it will last considerably longer than one kept constantly damp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309257142641,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309257175409,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/iK5RGzrWC1f96U08qbJfA_b8TgKXpt.jpg?v=1787628612"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-serenity-rose-magic","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Serenity Rose Magic (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy does the same plant carry white, pink and rose flowers at once? Rose Magic opens pale, often close to blush or near white, and each bloom deepens towards rose as it ages. Cool nights push the colour harder and a hot week washes it out. Nothing has gone wrong when the tones keep shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat habit gives you a soft, changeable planting rather than a solid block of one colour, which suits cottage-style beds, mixed pots and anywhere a hard single tone would sit too heavily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull sun all day, or the flowering falls away to almost nothing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree-draining soil; crowns rot in wet clay over winter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeadhead regularly, then shear lightly after the main flush.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlan to replace it every few years as the base goes woody.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBred cultivars like this are generally protected by plant breeders rights, so striking your own for resale is not on. For a home garden, an extra 140mm or 170mm plant or two is the simpler answer anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64309257306481,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64309257339249,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/iSPi80Bypt2D8CaWfjLHa_f7BlhNrP.jpg?v=1787628611"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-blue-eyed-beauty","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a reason this African daisy gets picked out of a lineup: clean yellow rays around a dark blue to near black centre, on a plant that flowers for months rather than weeks. The main flush runs through spring, and in mild districts it repeats on and off whenever the weather is kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt needs full sun and it needs drainage. The flowers close at night, in heavy shade and on dull overcast days, so an open border or a warm north facing aspect gives the best return. Soggy ground over winter is what kills it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsteospermum is a soft, short lived perennial rather than a shrub, so expect a few strong seasons rather than a decade. Shear the whole plant back by about a third after each heavy flush to stop it going woody and bare through the middle, and strike a few cuttings if you want to carry it on. It works in borders, in pots, spilling over low walls and in coastal gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 140mm up to 170mm, priced from $16.95 to $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. These are younger plants, priced for planting in quantity, and they establish quickly once in the ground. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"140mm","offer_id":64311396073841,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150mm","offer_id":64311396106609,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64311396139377,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/PhP6PARZkTpdW--jqHdB9_CHB9Qhpd.jpg?v=1787629356"},{"product_id":"osteospermum-3d-double-yellow-tm","title":"African Daisy - Osteospermum 3D Double Yellow TM (Dimorphotheca)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLook closely at a 3D flower and the difference is obvious. Instead of the usual flat daisy with a dark eye, the centre is packed with short quilled florets that give a doubled, domed face in clear yellow. The other useful trait of the 3D series is that the blooms stay open in dull weather, where older osteospermums shut tight the moment the sun goes behind cloud and the whole display disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a South African daisy, evergreen and low mounding, happiest in full sun with sharp drainage and very little fuss. Humidity and damp mulch sitting against the crown are what finish them off in Sydney and Brisbane summers, so plant high and keep the base clear. Deadhead or shear lightly after each flush to keep flowering going and stop the plant sprawling open in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 170mm pots it suits front of border runs, raised beds, rockeries and container plantings. Being a protected variety, it cannot be propagated for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 170mm, at $21.95 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/low-water-gardens-australia\"\u003elow water gardens\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"170mm","offer_id":64311480648049,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Ez6fS_Vl1FaNYHOqm6AD2_AeUdJa2I.jpg?v=1787629792"}],"url":"https:\/\/plantdrop.com.au\/collections\/african-daisy.oembed","provider":"Plant Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}