How to Grow Gerbera Daisies in Your Garden
By Coyalita Linville
How to Grow Gerbera Daisies in Your Garden – Gerbera daisies just make you want to smile! These pretty flowers have long-lasting blooms that come in a variety of bright, happy colors from sunny yellow and hot pink to bright orange and burgundy among others.
Many varieties have bicolored petals showing off multiple colors. They’re quite striking and can be grown in containers or in garden beds.
Native to Africa, Gerbera daisies bloom from late spring through autumn. Gerbera daisies also make great flowers for arrangements in vases, so they’re a fun plant to add to a cutting garden. (Read our cutting garden design tips and ideas.)
Pollinators love them, too, and the flat flower heads make them especially alluring to butterflies and bees. (Here’s how to make a pollinator garden that actually works.)
Gerbera daisy flowers can be several inches across atop long, leafless stems above clumps of fuzzy foliage. They can have single petals, rows of double overlapping petals, crested petals with a ring of smaller petals just around the center, or spidery, pointy petals.
Gerbera Daisy Basic Info:
Common Name: Gerbera daisy, Gerber daisy, African daisy, Transvaal daisy
Botanical Name: Gerbera jamesonii Plant Family: Asteraceae
Type of Plant: Annual, or perennial in USDA zones 8 to 10
Native Origin: Africa
Sun Exposure: Part sun
Mature Size: 1 foot tall and wide
Toxic to pets: No
How to Care for Gerbera Daisies
Gerbera daisies grow well in average, well-draining soils. They do not like clay, which keeps them too soggy. If you have clay soil, plant then in containers instead of in landscape beds.
Gerbera daisies like lots of sun to bloom well, but in the hottest days of summer, they’re happiest with morning sun and afternoon shade. If potted, don’t place the pot up against the house, brick walls, or near driveways, which radiate additional heat.
Avoid overhead irrigation, which encourages disease. The crown also should dry out between waterings.
Gerbera daisies also benefit from a granular slow-release fertilizer a few times throughout the growing season, or you can use a liquid fertilizer when watering.
You also should deadhead the plants down to the next step or leaf to encourage them to keep pushing out new blooms.
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How to Grow Gerbera Daisies in Your Garden
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