Good plant #49 - Gazania 'Tiger Stripes'

Get the sun glasses out and put away your garden tools and watering can.  This is a very flamboyant front-of-border plant for the laziest gardener. It's great in pots.  It does well in dry sunny spots.

Provided you plant this in the sun and in anything but boggy soil, this annual plant will do the honours.  It almost thrives on neglect once established.  It prefers drier conditions.

There's little point propagating this as you can buy a load very cheaply, usually from May onwards in the garden centre.  If you get them earlier than May, you can buy more than 40 plug plants for less than a tenner!  If you do buy plug plants before May, they are prone to frost damage.  If frost is forecast, put a plastic cup over the plugs and with a bit of luck, they'll get through.

If you want to propagate this, you can collect the seeds (and plant the following year in late spring) or take cuttings in early summer before flowering.

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