"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 7/7/04 12:17, in article , "Geoff
Bryant" wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas what this daisy may be?

http://www.hortiphoto.com/transfers/HPA2812.jpg

It's a subshrub or evergreen perennial around 40-50cm high, the
flowerheads
are up 5cm diameter and I photographed it today, which is midwinter here
in
New Zealand. It's been flowering for several months and shows no sign of
stopping. The garden is in a frost-free area.

It's a Euryops and I think it's chrysanthemoides from what I can see of
the
leaf. They are absolutely marvellous plants and go on flowering for ages.
If you want to be very tidy, you can take off dead flower stalks but
that's
all you need to do as they produce new flowers from every leaf joint
without
any need for trimming or pinching out - they're self-stopping. Ours
flower
for 8 or 9 months of every year and have survived -6 frosts but a really
hard frost will kill them.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds after garden to email me)

Thanks Sacha. While the plant is similar to Euryops chrysanthemoides, this
garden is absolutely full of Euryops chrysanthemoides,which makes it easy to
see that regretably that's not what this mystery plant is. It's smaller than
the euryops, less woody and the leaves are fleshier, less deeply lobed and
have a faint hint of blue about them.

--
Geoff Bryant
www.hortiphoto.com