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Group/Class:  Ravers Series

Description:

An eye catching groundcover perennial that produces stunning, fuchsia-pink daisy blooms with gold centers and black eyes, from spring to fall over silvery foliage; tolerates freezing temperatures only briefly; deadhead to promote new blooms

Ornamental Features

Pink Sugar African Daisy features showy fuchsia daisy flowers with pink overtones, black eyes and a gold ring at the ends of the stems from early spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive tomentose lobed leaves remain grayish green in colour with hints of silver throughout the year.

Landscape Attributes

Pink Sugar African Daisy is a dense herbaceous annual with a mounded form. 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 plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Pink Sugar African Daisy is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Pink Sugar African Daisy will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity extending to 12 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. Although it's not a true annual, this plant can be expected to behave as an annual in our climate if left outdoors over the winter, usually needing replacement the following year. As such, gardeners should take into consideration that it will perform differently than it would in its native habitat.

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. This plant does not require much in the way of fertilizing once established. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Pink Sugar African Daisy is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.