I’d never been a fan of planting flowers just for the sake of flowers but was given a tray of gazanias a while back and I must admit they are pretty great. They are indigenous, from Namaqualand and the South-western Cape and like sun, lots of it.
They flower profusely in winter and spring and my plants have started to self-sow themselves in clumps around the garden. Gazanias come in a variety of colours – red, pink, yellow, cream and white – but as you can see from the pic below, mine are orange.
fine flowers… and they can survive (and spread) without much water or care… easy and rewarding indigenous gardening..
Rewarding is right – they are so beautiful, but with so little attention!
OOps i see now where the coments come up, anyway we have a series of workshops coming up leading out of winter into spring on the above w/ shop topics, email us for details or see web site which should be up and running by end August
Thanks paul