unknown pink flowering plant

hiya everyone
unfortunately, after looking at the plant in question I don't have access to it to take a picture so hoping that you may be able to help by the description. I saw this plant in someone's container .. the flower part looks quite daisy-ish, but bigger, and pink. the leaves are quite narrow, the stalk quite thickish .. the interesting, and hopefully the part that can identify this plant is that the leaves have a sparkly look to them when looked at from certain angles, kinda like they have been sprayed with tiny droplets of water and they look quite rubbery/plastic (which they were not, honest lol)
does that description mean anything to anyone ? the plant was absolutely gorgeous and I would love to pop some into my garden. I did ask the owner of the container but she said it was given to her last year and she didn't know what was in it .. she said it died back last winter to nothing and she didn't expect it to come back this year but it appeared from nowhere lol
thank you for any help you can give.
Eri x

 

Maybe Echinacea:


Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) by BarefootGardener, on Flickr

or

an Osteospurmum ?


IMG_0974 by Andrea_44, on Flickr

 

I would agree with A that it may be the Osteos or perhaps Argyranthemum bit difficult for me to say though without a picture ... even this ... the Marguerite Daisy

Marguerite Daisy - Plant Encyclopedia - BHG.com

 

Or perhaps Gazania?

 

Could be Dai, but here Gazanias are rarely pink .. usually orange/yellow sort of ..

 

thank you for your help everyone .. i've made a list of your suggestions and when i go out shopping later will see if i can find them and have a look .. so far though from pics i have found on google i think its going to be osteospermum
Eri x

 

My guess would be these, i have loads of them growing like weeds here .....

They are hardy Gerberas and come in 2 shades of pink and also a white.

 

oh they are beautiful .. and so similar too .. the leaves to the right, are they the leaves from those flowers ?

 

No, they're not actually, those are the leaves of the Dianthus which is next to them.
Dianthus also grow like weeds here !!!

 

You little devil :WINK1: :D

 

Louise - I never knew there was such a thing as a hardy Gerbera in this country - even in the south. - thanks.

 

News to me as well, *runs off to garden centre*:yess:

 

Ohhh yes my friends, and they came through a winter of minus 12 here too, a good recommendation, eh ?! :D

I think my favourites are the pale pink ones, then the cerise and then the white ones, if you can give them impoverished soil in a warm spot they'll do just fine, i have them in sun and shade.

I was staggered to see them reappear after the winter, i really was !

 

Mesembryanthemum?
Mesembryanthemum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia