The Garden Community for Garden Lovers

First Osteospermum jucundum this year.


First Osteospermum jucundum this year. (Osteospermum jucundum)

The only truly hardy Osteospermum.



Comments on this photo

 

This is beautiful as if someone has switched it on.

29 Apr, 2009

 

They open quite suddenly - one morning there's a closed bud, in the afternoon if it's sunny, out comes a flower!

I have been planting more, as some of the original ones in the garden are getting old and woody. Our predecessors must have liked them - there's a bed with just these in it - as well as clumps elsewhere. Lucky I like them as well, isn't it...

29 Apr, 2009

 

Lovely Spritz...........

29 Apr, 2009

 

I have such a soft spot for these. This is beautiful. Do you know if they take from cuttings? I should carry over stock each season indoors.

30 Apr, 2009

 

Yes, they do. At the RHS garden in Devon, there's a bed with tender perennials and that's how they do it. I haven't managed to keep one yet, but this O. jucundum, hardy over here, speads by layering itself, so that would be a bonus for you, you could dig up a piece and over-winter it!

30 Apr, 2009

 

Im looking for these Myself Now Spritz as the 1s i brought last yr Like u said would i lost 2 frost :(

30 Apr, 2009

 

At the GC the other day, a lady was looking at a pot of Osteospermum, and had asked a staff member if it was hardy. She was told that it was... I knew it wasn't, so I am not ashamed to tell you that I went and put her right!

Then she asked for help, so together we found a nice little selection of hardy plants... I think I shall start charging for my services, as a very similar thing happened on the previous visit! LOL.

I don't like seeing people buy plants that will probably die.

30 Apr, 2009

 

That was very Kind & thoughtful of you Spritz id do the same :)

30 Apr, 2009

 

Why don't GC staff know their plants??? I think they should, before giving out advice.

30 Apr, 2009

amy
Amy
 

lovely photo , the centre is amazing .......

30 Apr, 2009

 

I agree Spritz ud think they have to have some sort of Plant Knowledge to get their Job wouldnt u?

30 Apr, 2009

 

It glows like a torch, It really is fantastic. We can usually get a few seasons from them. The last few years were no problem.
The garden centre staff are not trained ...... cost, cost, cost, it bugs me too, I was in a G.C. and the guy there recommended the same plant to three people in a row (must of had too much in stock!)

1 May, 2009

 

This one has been here for years and years, in fact, some of the original plants have died of old age! I have planted 6 new ones this spring to try to get the space filled as it was before - they do shine and I have a complete bed of them in one area. When they are all in full bloom it looks wonderful.

1 May, 2009

 

It looks awesome

Is the color white or light blue

thanks

15 Sep, 2011

 

The tops/fronts of the petals are white, and on the reverse they're pale pink. :-)

15 Sep, 2011



Comment on this photo


Pictures by all members
238464 of 302346

What else?

View photos by Spritzhenry

See who else is growing Osteospermum jucundum.

See who else has plants in genus Osteospermum.

This photo is of "Osteospermum" in Spritzhenry's garden

Members who like this photo

  • Gardening with friends since
    4 Apr, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    23 Mar, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    12 Jan, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    26 Apr, 2009

  • Gardening with friends since
    4 Feb, 2008

  • amy
    Amy

    Gardening with friends since
    17 Apr, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    7 Feb, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    22 Feb, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    29 Mar, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    10 Nov, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    22 Oct, 2008

  • Gardening with friends since
    11 Apr, 2008