Size: #4.5

Description: Osteospermum have large, colorful, daisy-like blooms.  The Summertime variety are heat tolerant with a very nice mounding habit and natural branching where blooms are abundant.  Summertime Sunset is orange with a pinkish-purple center on green foliage.  Osteospermum blooms will close every evening, and open up again in early morning.  Regular deadheading will encourage new blooms, and a light summer pruning may result in a fall flush of blooms after the weather cools off.

Spacing: Plant 12″ to 14″ apart.

Height: Grows 10″ to 18″ tall.

How To Grow: Plant in full sun to part shade.

Outstanding Features: Osteospermum Summertime Sunset is a very tough yet beautiful plant that tolerates heat.

Tips: Use Summertime Sunset at the front of the border or set them around the patio in pots.  Also fertilize once a season with a slow-release fertilizer or twice a month with a water soluble fertilizer.

Uses: Garden Bed, Containers, Borders, Landscapes and hanging baskets.

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