Marguerite Daisy Sunrise Rose
Argyranthemum frutescens "Sunrise Rose"

Marguerite daisies never go out of fashion because they possess a simple beauty that has captured the hearts of generations of gardeners. The only thing that has changed is that new varieties have become available which offer an even better flowering performance.

One of these is ‘Sunrise Rose’ which has very pretty, rose-pink flowers on a compact bush which grows to a height of around 60 centimetres. It puts on an amazing flowering performance throughout spring and early summer, and again in autumn, as well as lighter flowerings at other times of the year.

As well as being superb in borders, on banks and walls, among shrubs, roses, annuals and perennials, Marguerite ‘Sunrise Rose’ also performs well in pots. If provided with a good size container, a quality potting mix, and watered thoroughly and regularly, it will look stunning. Imagine a pot of it at an entranceway or on a deck, or situated among a colourful ground cover such as sky-blue flowered Lithodora ‘Grace Ward’ or Bacopa ‘Blue Showers’.

In the garden ‘Sunrise Rose’ tends to be a delight wherever it’s grown. Try it with lavenders such as ‘Major’ or the smaller growing ‘Violet Intrigue’, with sweet smelling heliotrope and blue and pink delphiniums, as a foreground to sweet peas and with ground covers such as lilac flowered Geranium incanum, which hardly stops flowering.

Plant it as a group to form a free flowering, weed beating ground cover on slopes and difficult to get at places. Use it as a cheerful note at the base of a letter box - it’s just the right size to avoid getting in the way of the postie.

Mix it with smaller growing daisy flowers, such as Felicia ‘Blue Jay’, and with the classy little NZ native Parahebe ‘Snowcap’ which forms a tight-growing mass of green foliage and has lots of pretty white flowers over a long period.