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Sun-loving Gazoo gazanias

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden

Gazoo Clear Yellow gazania likes hot, sunny days. (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)
Gazoo Clear Yellow gazania likes hot, sunny days. (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

Someone must have been having fun when naming the Gazoo Series of gazania (Gazania rigens), but that’s okay, because it’s such a beautiful daisy-like flower. A dear friend and budding gardener brought me a pot of these incredibly bright daisies, each one a big three inches (8 cm) across, on rigid 10-inch (25-cm) stems. They have glossy, thick foliage, and make a terrific plant for containers in sunny locations. It’s not hard to guess that these flowers are native to South Africa, given how much they love heat and light.

Gazanias are frost tender in cool climates (and perennial in warmer zones), but will bloom through the summer if kept in bright sun and given good drainage. Of course, gazanias are all about vivid colour—the red, purple, orange and yellow are deeply saturated—and most flowers have a thin black ring around their central disc. The white Gazoo Clear Yellow is really dazzling and has no black ring. I’m going to find some violet-blue ‘Victoria’ annual salvia for the centre of a large container, and put these bright daisies all around it.

The past two summers have had long stretches of heat and burning sun through July and into August, and plants in containers have suffered. In the third week of May, the temperature is 28°C on a bright sunny day, and I see plants wilting already. I’m going to look for more sun-loving plants like gazania that can take the heat and keep on ticking.

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Published: May 23, 2012 | Updated: February 6, 2019

About Judith Adam

Judith Adam is a horticulturist, landscape designer and author of several best-selling gardening books, including Landscape Planning. She lives in Toronto.

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  1. Judith says

    May 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Hi Yvonne,

    I just saw some gorgeous portulaca, deep coral and yellow, and great for sunny, dry locations. Going back to the nursery to get them! Thanks!

    — Judith

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  2. Yvonne says

    May 23, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Try some portulaca – it loves the sun and does well in containers or as a border plant (I’ve heard it referred to as Moss Rose, but it’s definitely not the same plant you were referring to. It is a frost tender succulent annual that is very drought tolerant. The Sundial hybrid mix will give you a variety of white, pink, yellow, orange and red – the Peppermint variety is really neat, too. Portualca thrives in much the same conditions as the gazania, which I have also planted the past two years. They are both great fillers in my daylily beds, and look wonderful in terra cotta pots.

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