Gazania Garden Leader Mix Gazania Rigens is a half-hardy perennial flowering plant native to southern Africa, and this highly attractive flower is naturalized as an ornamental garden flower throughout the world. Gazania Garden Leader Mix seeds need light to germinate, so the surface sowing is recommended. Also called Treasure Flower, Gazania Rigens is the spreading, low to the ground, tender perennial in warm climates or annual elsewhere. Gazania Garden Leader Mix has blue-gray-green foliage with narrow grass-like leaves on trailing stems, and this particular Gazania blooms profusely in spring, summer, fall and even winter if climate allows with masses of daisy-like white, orange, pink, red, bronze, and yellow flowers attracting butterflies and bees.
Gazania Garden Leader Mix makes a wonderful ornamental ground cover plant, and this colorful Treasure Flower mix looks fabulous in mass plantings, flower beds, along walkways, xeriscape gardens, window baskets, rock gardens, containers, hanging baskets, and pots. Gazania Rigens seeds are easy to germinate, and once established Gazania likes to grow in full sun tolerating drought, heat, and poor, dry and sandy soil. Gazania easily re-seeds itself.
PLANT PROFILE
Season: Perennial/Annual
Height: 12 Inches
Bloom Season: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter
Environment: Sun
Soil Type: Average/Poor/Dry/Moist well-drained, pH 5.8-6.8
USDA Zones: 8-11 (As Perennial) All Regions of North America (As Annual)
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS
Sow Indoors: Winter (Indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost)
Sow Outdoors: Spring In Zones 8-11(Outdoors)
Seed Depth: Surface sowing - press seeds slightly into the soil
Germination Time: 14-21 Days
