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 Yellow glows with it’s yellow petals and dark center over the 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 Yellow is a tough yet beautiful plant that is heat tolerant.

Tips: Use these 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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