Re: Swan River Daisy


>    There's alot of hybridizing and selecting going on with this genus
>in the trade today. Of course, the named selections are patented. But I
>think we'll see alot of them this year in the nurseries here. A great
>plant, blooms almost all year as it scrambles around between other
>plants or spills out of containers.

We've been seeing quite a few hybrids in recent years  - a pink form
-' Strawberry ' being especially attractive, but there are several
good creamy yellows as well.  Personally I prefer the 'ordinary'
Brachyscome iberidifolia - its fine foliage and bright blue daisies
are especially attractive.  With me it is quite hardy and runs about,
rooting as it goes, forming little colonies some distance from the
main plant.  Eventually it becomes quite woody and is technically a
'sub-shrub' I suppose.  Here it flowers from February to Christmas and
is given an annual top dressing of leaf mould after being heavily
sheared back in early spring.  

Dave Poole
TORQUAY  UK
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