Osteospermum (Cape daisy)

I bought two this year on Serena other Kalanga Rosy.

They gave a beautiful show but are no wwell past blooming with all this heat we have had.

I would like to try and keep these for next year.

What can I do ?

I have managed to take 20 tip cuttings of Kalanga Rosy as it had lush growth. Serena no cuttings.

Has anyone managed to propagate these before.

My greenhouses are unheated although our conservatory has heat I winter and I do have elec propagators.

 

I have overwintered osteospurnums in my greenhouse, but found they got very leggy. Cuttings would seem to be the best method.

Whilst not very hardy, they do survive in the ground in milder areas - so I would suggest that overwintering in an unheated greenhouse may be OK (keep em on the dry side) - and if it is too cold move em into the conservatory overnight.

 

In the South West [even here in Warminster] I often see gardens with large clumps of Osteospermum which seem too big to be replanted each year, but last year all mine were frosted. Are there any particularly hardy varieties that anyone knows of? :confused:

 

There is only one hardy variety, O jucundum, a smaller variety with pink or purple flowers with gold centres.

Having a similar climate to South Africa here, they grow in profusion and even wild down banks. I have three clumps, the common white with purple on the backside of the petals and the plain purple one. They get very straggly and I just cut them all the way back and they come back very quickly. Beware .. they also send runners up everywhere! :eek:

 

I nicked some cuttings from a next door neighbour of an osteo that has been there for ever and survived the coldest of North Yorks winters.

I just rooted them in a jam jar on windowsill and have several healthy little plants now.

I want that really vivid orange one, could do with finding a likely mother plant.

 

I had the yellow one, and I've seen a pale orange but a vivid orange ... I'd like that here for my orange / pink rockery! If I find it here, I'll get it and send you a piece, Waco.

 

Serena


Kalanga Rosy.
I was so pleased with these growing in containers in our garden had a wonderful show of colour.

Gives you so much cheerfulnes in the gardne and pleassure.
Even entered a photo with newspaper of Kalanga Rosy for Chelsey Flower Show photos on the tv.

As I liked her so much I entered.

Gives everyone so much cheerfulness and pleasure in the garden.

 

Lovely to see they bloom up there. Skotkat! They are really beauts! They are a joy in the garden and I love them ... but I do have to be ruthless with them here, several times a year.

This is the best photo I've got of mine ... because they're so "common" here you don't tend to photograph them!

 

those are lovely LoL will have to keep looking for orange - just your colout too when I find it!

 

I love these flowers, I've got some pale yellow ones. I am going to take my chances with leaving them out over the winter, but saving the seed just in case.

 

So pleased the Rosy Capy Daisy cuttings are well rooted.

Now got 17 extra plants growing on nicely for next year.

Should have done the apricot one at the same time.

Was experimenting so this morning away to take lush cuttings again.

 

I just had a chuckle, Scotkat ... you're off to take lush cuttings again, and I've been ruthlessly cutting back and uprooting and filled a wheelbarrow to dump! I have found them to be very invasive also and send runners everywhere! :eek:

Ours are lushing up now getting read for their winter blooming ... they rest in the summer here.

 

So strange Lady of Leisure mine are kept in containers.

Have not tried in the ground but grown in the right climate they are used to can well imagine yes they would get invasive.

Never the less they are so pretty.

 

Completely agree, Scotkat! We're pobably lucky they don't grow like mad here! :rolleyes:

But they do seem to like our mushroom compost!! :D

 

I'm not too sure about this but as I know it there are two maybe more very different plants that are sold in the UK as osteospermum.
Those in your pics scotkat are the ones that are sold as bedding plants, and are a fairly tender perrenial.
The others that run and root all over the place are pretty hardy, I think they may well be jucundum as L of L says.