Daisy Spray Erigeron is the best form of Australia’s most popular landscape plant, the Seaside Daisy. It will quickly and easily grow to cover large areas or difficult sites as a colourful hardy, low maintenance flowering groundcover.
Daisy Spray Erigeron is a superior form of the Seaside Daisy, Erigeron karvinskianus, that will grow into a compact mound 60 cm in diameter and 40 cm tall. Daisy Spray Erigeron retains its compact shape & dosen’t self-sow and spread throughout the garden. Daisy Spray Erigeron’s soft pink & white daisy flowers are borne in a densely massed profusion for most of the year.
Uses:
Daisy Spray Erigeron can be mass planted as a groundcover and looks great interplanted with a mixture of perennial plants to create a cottage style landscape. Daisy Spray Erigeron can be used to create flowering borders or used planted under standard roses & weeping trees. It is ideal as a hardy colourful plant for pots or hanging baskets. Plant one Daisy Spray Erigeron per pot, for pots larger than 30cm plant a number to quickly fill your pots or baskets with flowering colour.
Planting & Care:
Daisy Spray Erigeron thrives in hot sun to light shade, the poorest soils and requires a minimum of water. For rapid establishment, plant into a well cultivated bed, fertilise with a slow release fertiliser such as Devotion Time Release Fertiliser and water regularly. Reapply fertiliser around your Daisy Spray Erigeron every three months. Mulching around your plants is beneficial, a 5cm thick layer of composted pine bark will reduce weeds and the amount of water required to grow a beautiful Daisy Spray Erigeron landscape.
Plant 4 plants per meter square for rapid groundcover and 3 plants per meter to quickly establish Daisy Spray Erigeron borders.
