Marguerite Sunjay
Argyranthemum frutescens "Sunjay"

Sunjay's a breakthrough daisy with fully double lemon-yellow blooms. It's the first Federation Daisy with flowers from the yellow spectrum, not only creating new possibilities for colour coordination, but also representing a milestone in marguerite breeding. Yellows have proved incredibly difficult to breed, they're 'genetic freaks'. Breeders from NuFlora International spent five years isolating the yellow pigmentation from closely related species and introducing it to the fine form of the Federation Daisy.

Sunjay bears masses of fully double lemon-yellow flowers on a 60cm bush with a mounding habit. It flowers early in spring, right through to summer. A light clip late summer will produce a mass of flowers in autumn. Flowering early in the season, it has the positive attribute of being "self-cleaning" with new flowers appearing over the top of old ones.

Sunjay's another in the series of Federation Daisies; a range of marguerite daisies bred for improved garden performance and gardener satisfaction. A fine choice as a specimen or en masse in gardens, and in patio pots it pleases very quickly, filling the pot and overflowing with a slightly cascading habit.

Features

• Bright lemon to moonlight-yellow blooms that smother the bush for months on end.
• At home on patios and in gardens & borders.
• Fine foliage; green with a hint of blue.
• Vigorous, tidy & compact, mounding bush to around 60cm.
• An easy-grow perennial, all it needs is an occasional clip and feed.
• Sunjay's has been awarded a prestigious Stars of Spring 2002

Using Sunjay

• Sunjay's equally at home in gardens or pots.
• Try it on garden banks and in rockeries.
• In our trials on a northwest-facing bank it flowered continuously from August right through to June the following year!
• Daisies make a wonderfully bold display when used en masse.
• Very effective as a low growing "hedge" alongside a garden path or border.

Growing Sunjay

• Grow in full sun.
• Plant in a well-drained soil, but don't let it dry out over summer. Yellowing of foliage is a tell-tale sign of having got too dry.
• Tolerant of light 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.

Schemes and Themes with Sunjay

Cheerful, free-flowering bush daisy.

The yellow marguerite daisies bring a feeling of cheerfulness to gardens, flowering on and on when other plants have stopped for a rest and delighting everyone with their simple beauty.

‘Sunjay’ has fully double flowers that cover the compact bush, so it’s an ideal choice for growing in a container - imagine it in a bright blue pot. It’s compact habit makes it good for edging a path - allow a bit of room for spread so that when it grows it’s on the edge of the path, not taking up so much room that it makes walking difficult.

A little light pruning when the flowers finally come to a halt will ensure the compact habit is retained and encourage lots more flowers to keep on coming.