Marguerite Sultan's Pride
Argyranthemum frutescens "Sultan's Pride"

A fantastic Federation Daisy from NuFlora Interantional. It has single white flowers and grey-blue foliage that offers a new dimension for colour co-ordination. It flowers early in the season, and has the positive attribute of being "self-cleaning" with new flowers appearing over the top of old ones. Mind you, if you're like many of us you'll give nature a helping hand with some snips of your own!

Compact, with fine, but dense, “fern-like” foliage, Sultan’s Pride is vigorous and easy to grow. The bush spreads to form a rounded mound around 50cm tall and 75cm wide.

It has the usual Federation characteristics: basal branching, self-cleaning, long flower season, early flowering and improved garden performance.

Sultan's Pride is a fine choice as a specimen or en masse in gardens. In patio pots it pleases very quickly, the foliage looks stunning against terracotta.

Features

• Unique glaucous (grey-blue) foliage offering new dimensions for colour coordination.
• Standout white flowers with prominent yellow centre.
• Flowers for months on end.
• Fine, but dense, “fern-like” foliage .
• Vigorous, compact rounded bush to around 50cm.
• An easy-grow perennial, just an occasional clip and feed.
• Sultan's Pride was awarded a prestigious Star of Spring 2001.

Using Sultan's Pride

• Sultan's Pride is extremely versatile, at home in both gardens and on patios.
• Daisies make a wonderfully bold display when used en masse.
• Very effective as a low-growing "hedge" along side a garden path or border.

Growing Sultan's Pride

• Grow in full sun.
• Plant in a well-drained soil, but don't let it dry out over summer - the first tell tale sign of too little water being a yellowing of the foliage in the middle of the bush.
• While its "blue genes" make Sultan's Pride more tolerant of light frosts than other marguerites, it's best to provide shelter from harsh frost.
• Needs little by way of maintenance; a feed at the beginning of spring and the occasional clip to tidy, maintain vigour and encourage further flowering.