Gazania named New Day Clear Orange #2
by J McCombie
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Gazania named New Day Clear Orange #2
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J McCombie
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As the name would suggest, this gorgeous Gazania is a nice bright, clear orange. There are tiny stitches of white and shadows of brown near the base of each petal. It's centre is a golden orange button with golden orange tubes or florets and stamen with golden yellow pollen.
The gazania flower, named for the 15th century Greek-Italian scholar Theodorus of Gaza, is a low maintenance South African annual that will brighten up your hard-to-landscape spaces. Gazania rigens (syn. G. splendens), sometimes called Treasure Flower or African Daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to southern Africa. It is naturalised elsewhere and is widely cultivated as an ornamental garden plant. It is a spreading, low-growing, half-hardy perennial, growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and wide, with lobed lance-shaped, narrow blue-grey felted foliage and solitary brilliant yellow, daisy-like composite flowerheads 8 cm (3.25 inch) across throughout the summer.
Due to numerous hybrids of Gazania, banded markings combined with rich shades of yellow, pink, purple, bronze, white, orange, red, and coral help gardeners decide what seedling strains to grow. Besides, Gazania’s growing habits are the same regardless of variety. Gazania is a half-hardy annual that parades abundant blooms from summer to winter and will bounce back from a light frost. In USDA growing zones 9-11, the hottest parts of the country, gazanias may perform as evergreen perennials; gazania is grown as an annual elsewhere. It is tolerant to drought, poor soil conditions, baked conditions, and still produces bold-color, daisylike flowers from summer to frost. It closes up during night time and cloudy days as if taking a sleep and wakes up at a gaze of sunlight.
The flowers appear over toothed dark green or silver leaves (the foliage color differs between varieties). They have a spreading habit which makes them great in beds and borders and containers, too.
Breeders have delivered the New Day series that boasts more uniform flowering than competing varieties with large flowers that open quickly and remain open for longer, short peduncles and beefy-looking plants. Even with all that, New Day gazania varieties are more compact and easier to produce for growers, and hold well at retail. Gardeners and landscapers love this drought-tolerant series for its excellent performance in containers and baskets, patios, coastal gardens and groundcovers. If you're tight on greenhouse space, New Day gazania responds well to high-density pack programs. Height: 8-10", 6-8" spread. Composed of New Day Bronze Shades, Clear Orange, Pink Shades, Yellow, Rose Stripe and White.
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May 10th, 2017
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