Sunbathers Gold Coast Gazania

Group/Class: Sunbathers Series

Ornamental Features:

Sunbathers Gold Coast Gazania features bold gold daisy flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the stems from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's oval leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Sunbathers Gold Coast Gazania is an herbaceous annual bedding plant with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This annual bedding plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep. Trim off the flower heads after they fade and die to encourage more blooms late into the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Sunbathers Gold Coast Gazania is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Container Planting
• General Garden Use
• Border Edging
• Mass Planting
• Hanging Baskets
• Rock/Alpine Gardens

Plant Characteristics:

Sunbathers Gold Coast Gazania will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity extending to 14 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This annual bedding plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in poor soils, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by cuttings.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.