To plant Spanish-daisies in the garden is to bid summer a warm welcome. Welcome to sunny, warm welcome, welcome to colour splendour and joy.
It comes from South Africa where the sun shines all year. Yes, actually counts the South Africans throughout the 300 days of sunshine a year.
Osteospermum / spansk margurit is a genus belonging to the Calenduleae, one of the smaller tribes of the sunflower family (Asteraceae).
Osteosperum used to belong to the genus Dimorphotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteospermum. The genus Osteospermum is also closely related to the small genus Chrysanthemoides,
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