Aunt Hazel's Garden

Gazania Daisies I love this bright beautiful gazania daisy perennial plant in my garden. I purchased a six pack of these flowers and only one survived the many snails and slugs in my garden. This was the one! Now all the many mounds I have in my garden of gazania daisies are from this one gorgeous mounding plant with long slender deep green leaves and bright orange-yellow flowers with a deep brown emphasis around the eye of the flower. These gazania daisies produce flowers through the spring well into autumn for me to enjoy. Since they are perennials they come back yearly to share their beauty. You can create more mounds of these beauties by dividing and transplanting, while they are dormant, from late fall through early spring. Gazania Daisies Love the Sun! 🌞 Sun Needs Gazania daisies, also referred to as treasure flowers and African daisies love the sun. My mounds of daisies get the sun from mid-morning to about four o'clock in the afternoon. When i...

Beautiful Coreopsis Vibrant yellow flowers with varied colorful centers above full mounds of thin leaves. Coreopsis loves direct sun when established. Best blooming period is late Spring through early Fall. Established Mounds of Coreopsis Hardy and easy to grow once established, but needs tender loving care when transplanting. Transplanting Coreopsis You can propagate new plants by transplanting perennial Coreopsis. On a healthy mound of Coreopsis find a clump of leaves that you can divide safely and will leave enough on the original plant to survive. As you look at the plant you will notice that there are areas that are better to divide than others. Cut through the area that you have determined would be best, making sure to dig down far enough to get good roots. Plant in new location and give it tender loving care by keeping it watered and shaded if need be until it looks like it has taken hold of its new location. Transplanting is best to do during th...