Gazania 'Daybreak Mix'
Treasure Flower 'Daybreak Mix'
'Daybreak Mix' is a mixture of perennials with glossy dark green leaves, with silky white hairs to underside. Flowers in early summer: bronze, orange, yellow, bright pink or white, usually zoned in a contrasting colour. Ideal for borders, beds and rock gardens.
Contributed by @glossygardener
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Full sun
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Occasional watering
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A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
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Free draining
Common name
Treasure Flower 'Daybreak Mix'
Latin name
Gazania 'Daybreak Mix'
type
Annual
family
Asteraceae
ph
7.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
Gazania 'Daybreak Mix'
'Daybreak Mix' is a mixture of perennials with glossy dark green leaves, with silky white hairs to underside. Flowers in early summer: bronze, orange, yellow, bright pink or white, usually zoned in a contrasting colour. Ideal for borders, beds and rock gardens.
Flowering Season
From Early Summer TO Early Autumn
Flowers are daisy-like and bright orange, pink, white, red, yellow, bronze and sometimes striped.
Planting Season
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
Plant out container grown plants in a sunny site.
Propagation by seed
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Sow seed under glass.
Propagation by cuttings
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
ake soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten,