Osteospermum, African Daisy, Cape Daisy 'Blackthorn'

This neat ground-hugging little plant is probably the hardiest and most wet-tolerant of all osteospermums. It will slowly grow to two fee...Read Moret across, but is rarely more than six inches tall. It is covered with one and a half inch, bright red-purple flowers with clear yellow centres for most of the summer.

Here in Cornwall, U.K., zone 9b, there are many less hardy osteospermums I could grow, but I really like this tough little gem.

Although it tolerates 'ordinary' soil, it looks best on a raised bed or rock-garden and associates well with marigolds and gazanias and Campanula portenschlagiana.

It occasionaly produces viable seed which is well worth sowing, as it often produces slightly different, but still attractive plants.

This grows well in the UK, which is Zone 8