{"id":553,"date":"2008-09-11T02:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2008-10-02T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:07:11","slug":"osteospermum-summer-performer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/osteospermum-summer-performer\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Osteospermum &#8211; A Great Summer Performer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/000_0415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-554\" title=\"000_0415\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/000_0415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/000_0415.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/000_0415-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Osteospermum was donated by cutting from a neighbour about 10 years ago. The large <strong>daisy shaped flowers appear all summer long<\/strong> in a light purple shade. It would be hard to count the number of flowers each year and I am guilty of not feeding the plant.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant seems hardy and is evergreen with greyish leaves.<\/li>\n<li>I have placed it in the sun to droop over a wall where the soil is well drained.<\/li>\n<li>There is a new range of colours and many hybrids including yellows and variegated plants<\/li>\n<li>Other common names include African Daisy or Blue-eyed Daisy so you could guess it is a member of the <em>Compsitae<\/em> family.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to see other Osteospermum<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osteospermum.com\/albums\/variegatedalbum.htm\"> try the <\/a>Osteospermum.com web site<\/li>\n<li>The lax and blousy habit make them an attraction in seaside locations where they thrive. They can be pruned or trimmed back in September.<\/li>\n<li>Dimorphotheca are annuals that look very similar to Osteospurmum but they are South African calendula and part of the <em>Asteraceae<\/em> family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Osteospermum was donated by cutting from a neighbour about 10 years ago. The large daisy shaped flowers appear all summer long in a light purple shade. It would be hard to count the number of flowers each year and I am guilty of not feeding the plant. The plant seems hardy and is evergreen with greyish leaves. I have placed it in the sun to droop over a wall where the soil is well drained. There is a new&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/osteospermum-summer-performer\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}