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Re: Osteospermum Pluvialis 'Glistening White' (Rain Daisy)

Hi Heather!

I don't know about Osteospermum Pluvialis, but if you were dissapointed in
Mesembryanthemum, perhaps you didn't realize what you were growing.  Here
in Southern California,  Mesembryanthemum grows all over the place, but it
is a groundcover (also a wild plant in the salt marshes and estuaries),
that is covered with hot pink or white.  Here is what Sunset Western
Gardening, the Western US gardening bible says about  Mesembryanthemum
crysatllinum:

The least ornamental of many plants commonly called  Mesembryanthemum or
ice plant, this is now considered the only true  Mesembryanthemum...(It) is
a sprawling plant a few inches tall and several feet wide.  Oval, flat,
stalked, fleshy leaves grow up to 4 inches long , turn red in dry season.
Leaves covered with tiny transparent blisters that glisten like flecks of
ice....Inch wide flowers white to pinkish.  Easy to grow from seed....

I bet this is not what you thought you were growing.   Mesembryanthemum is
typically planted on bare slopes and puts on quite a show of shocking pink
once the weather turns warm.  I never heard of anyone growing it for the
flowers, however, they usually grow it simply to cover bare surfaces.

Nan


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Nan Sterman, "gardening addict"
Olivenhain, California
Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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