Re: whirlygig gaillardias

> I be willing to bet a doughnut that this plant is Osteospermum
> 'Whirligig'.  Looks very similar to the gaillardia, but it isn't one. 
> It's white with a pink or blue tint, the center-eye of the flower is
> blue and the petals are spoon shaped, flaring open at the ends.  The
> flowers close at night.
> We have them.  I also found a pink variety that we've just potted up
> last week.

I tend to agree -- that's the only 'Whirligig' cv I have seen in
catalogs and it's pretty cool looking.  Standard composite ray flower.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index