Gerbera Daisy
Gerbera Daisy
Gerbera daisy (Gerbera Jamesonii) also known as African daisy, Barberton Daisy, and Transvaal Daisy originates from South Africa, Madagascar to South American and tropical Asia.
Gerbera daisy is known for its bright vivid colors and large daisy-like flowers that grow on bare stems 10-18 inches tall. It is hardy in zones 9-10 and usually grown as an annual or tender perennial that can be brought inside during the winter. This eye-catching flower attracts bees and butterflies. In a NASA study for indoor air improvement, Gerbera proved effective in removing chemical vapors and toxic gases.*
Culture
Gerbera daisy should be planted in rich well-drained soil when the night temperatures are in the 40’s at night. As with many plants, they don’t like wet, soggy soil. If you have clay soil, one that holds moisture and stays wet, then you will need to amend the soil by adding organic material such as peat moss, compost,etc. to improve drainage. If the soil cannot be amended, then a raised bed or container is suggested. Plant the crowns above the soil level, too deep will invite crown rot.
Plant it in a sunny location protected from the hot afternoon sun. Full sun is best for more flower production. Water early in the day and allow it to dry slightly between watering. Avoid overhead watering. Improper watering and poor drainage will lead to problems such as crown rot and poor flower production. Feed monthly with a 1/2 strength balanced fertilizer and every two weeks during the flowering period (spring and summer). Maintain the plant by removing spent flowers and old leaves.
Propagation
Gerbera daisy can be started from seed 10-20 weeks before the last frost. No pretreatment is required. After collection, seeds should be germinated within 1-2 months. They may even reseed themselves during the summer. Keep in mind that plants grown from seed may differ from the parent plant. You can also divide the plant in the spring or take basal cuttings in the summer and dip in rooting hormone.
Not only is Gerbera daisy attractive in the garden or as a potted plant; they are also a favorite in the cut flower industry. The long vase life of up to 14 days and a myriad of available colors make this a favorite for floral designers. Hybridizers have produced hundreds of varieties with almost every color available except for blue and purple.
*Eco Friendly House Plants/Wolverton
Problems: Thrips, leafminer, spider mite, caterpillar, botrytis, powdery mildew, fungal rot and crown rot.
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POWDERY MILDEW
I have planted around 15 Gerbera Daisy’s for wife to have cut flowers. They are not doing so good. The leaves are light green and kind of yellowish. The petals seem OK when they are first coming out but as they get bigger, the petals become disfigured with missing petals and curled petals, etc. Some of the leaves seem to have a sort of powder on them. I would really appreciate any advice you could give.
Thanks, Brett
Tamara
I bought a gerbera daisy in a 2 gallon pot. I put it into a terra cotta pot. It gets lots of heat and sun but it is in some shade on my porch. The first day it was out there the flowers drooped down. So I watered it, drowned it. The plant came back to life a few hours later. I have been giving it a pot of water ever morning before work since. By doing this it seems to be keeping the soil moist and the plant standing but am I going to rot the plant? Also I have powder stuff on the leaves. I thought it might have been from the store dusting for bugs, is it that fungus.
How do you deadhead a Gerbera daisy? Do you simply remove only the flower (or what was the flower, actually). Or do you snip the stem at its base? I’ve never planted these before and am totally lost as to how to go about maintaining the flowers so that I have blooms throughout the summer. Thank you in advance!
My flowers’ petals keep falling off. We have had heavy rain lately. Is this the reason?
Even with the heavy rain, when we get a day of sun, the flowers wilt. Should I keep watering them?
Will the flowers continue growing even though the petals fall off? What should I do with that case?
Thank you!
I rec’d gerbera when my father passed in Feb. I still have in pot outside and it is doing rather well in leaf production, but has not flowered again. I use a weak solution of fertilizer in non-chlorinated water to water as needed, so why no flowers in 5 months? Will it flower again at all? I am in Austin, TX.
Angie
I’ve had my Gerbera for a little over a year – when my friend gave it to me last spring it was in flower. The plant continues to thrive, but it hasn’t flowered since. Is there any specific way to encourage flower growth?
i live in florida where the soil is very sandy. i love gerber daisys but every time i buy a plant it always dies. if i wanted to plant it outside would i be better off planting in the shade.?. if i put the plant in the sun it wilts. are temps go way up to the 90s. i have read all your comments.however i’m still not sure where i should plant the flowers. if i keep the plant inside does it have to have direct sunlight? we have over hangs all around are house so we get very little sunlight. could i try and keep the plant inside all year round? please help me out. thank you
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Was just wondering if I can keep my gerbera daisy in pot if I make sure to re-pot when needed? Or do I HAVE to plant it outside? It’s very special to me, I don’t want to hurt it by out door planting (I’m not so good at it, and our soil sucks)
I purchased and African Daisy (white petals with dark blue center) from a greenhouse this spring. We live in Northern Illinois and I would like to know how to winter these plants as I really enjoyed them and would like to have them come back next summer. Do I need to take them in the house and if I do what do I need to do with them in the house to keep them going. I don’t have much of a green thumb but I really want to keep these going. Thanks.
Wintering Gerbera daisy
I live in Northeast Florida where we have occasional freezing temperatures at night. Should I repot my Gerber Daisies and keep indoors for the winter or leave them outside(after cutting back)? If I leave them, should I mulch them.
are gerbera flowers edible?
My wife purchased a flowering gerbera. It was doing fine and we fertilized it with a liquid solution, approx 8% N. The plant showed an immediate response and now is doing poorly. The petioles have crisped off and the leaves are now wilted and drooping. Some are even crisping off. Could this be a N burn issue or is the plant now requiring more fertilizer???
Is the Gerbera Daisy deer resistant?
Flower color change
Hi! I bought a bright fuschia Gerbera daisy about 10 weeks back. I moved it from the plastic container it came in (with 6 large drainage holes) to a larger ceramic pot )with 1 small drainage hole) about 5 weeks back. I keep it on the patio of our (close to the ocean, southern california) apartment where it gets bright morning sun. I have fertilized it with a houseplant strength Miracle Gro solution once since I bought it. The leaves look good and there’ve been three new blooms. I remove dead leaves and water it once a week or so. But the new blooms are just a pale version of the original color. How can I get the bright fuschia back?
I don’t know what kind of animal is doing it but something is eating the heads off of my Gerbera daisies. It isn’t deer because we live in the city. Is there something I can spray on them to discourage this?
2007-4-15
KAREN ( kcutrell@charter.net / )
The leaves on my gerberas are being eaten - I have them in a flower bed – nothing else has holes in the leaves only the daisies! What should I be looking for “pest-wise”
My gerber daisies have a mold” “gray fungus/on the leaves. What is it, and how do I control(KILL) it?
My pot plant of Gerbera is wilting – but only half of the plant. I have read on your website about drainage and not watering on the crown (didn’t know I shouldn’t do that), also the plant looks a little pot-bound. I want to re-pot it, is that possible? will it survive? What are my other options? It’s stay wilted now for the past 3 days…
2006-11-14 @ 9:11:42 pm
danielle ( get.nervous@gmail.com
is there anything you can do for crown rot? i suspect my daisies have it, and i don’t want them to die. help!
I purchased approx. a dozen plants this spring. None have bloomed. They are green and leafy but had not one bloom. I have two questions: 1…should I pot them and bring them indoors this winter and 2. Why wouldn’t they have bloomed this year. I planted them in June..was this too late in the season?
Thanks
I live in Iowa and took my Gerbera Daisy inside before it got to cold outside. Now it looks like it is dying. Is there anything I should be doing besides watering and sunlight for it while the daisy is inside for the winter months? When is it ok to put it back outside?
I bought a gerber daisy from a store about a year ago and it did really well. It bloomed every month it seemed, and I even repoted it. Then I noticed that it had spider mites and the tips of the leaves were going brown. So I soaked the plant in mild soap water and repeated that a week later and I have not seen any spider mites since. However, the plant has not gone back to it’s usual health. Sadly I’ve only had one flower since and the leaves are still going brown. I’ve cut back watering now and I can see there’s a lot of new growth in the leaves. Do you think I need to re pot again? Thanks .
Hello! I have a potted gerbera which has been doing really well. It has tons of flower regrowth… Some come, they die, more come, etc. BUT… the flowers are blooming when their stems are less than an inch tall, so they’re completely hidden by the large leaves of the more mature plant. Should I cut back all of the larger leaves? Why would the flowers be blooming so close to the soil? Any advice you could give would be very much appreciated! Thank you!
I’ve had my potted gerbera well over a year and it’s been fine until recently. It’s been indoors all its life. The leaves have started to go a reddish brown and then they die. Can you tell me what’s wrong? Should I cut the leaves off? Thanks.
We recently purchased a home in the Houston, Texas area. When we purchased the home (February) the landscape had some gerber daisies in it and one was even blooming. Now that the weather has warmed up some more and more are blooming. Do I need to do anything to help them out? Fertilize? I didn’t know they would last through the winter, can I continue to leave them planted in the landscape every winter?
I PLANTED GERBER DAISIES(1 WEEK AGO) WHERE THERE IS ALOT OF SUN. I WAS TOLD, FOR THE FIRST WEEK TO WATER WELL, WHICH I DID MORNING AND EVENING. I LIVE IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY WHERE THE SOIL SANDY. I NOTICIED MY GERBERS ARE STARTING TO FADE. FROM READING YOUR RESPONCES ABOVE I THINK I HAVE CROWN OR ROOT ROT… MAYBE I NEED AFRICAN VIOLET FERTERLZER? ONE MORE THING I DID PLACE FERT DOWN ON THE SOIL BEFORE PLANTED THE GERBERS. DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG? PLEASE HELP!!
Okay, I bought a Gerbera Daisy for my Girlfriend, On the tag it says Bright Light. When I put it in the sun it wilts I put it in the shade and it starts to perk up. I spritz the leaves and around the Flower itself. But I cant Put it in the sun. What else can i do to keep it from Dying on me? Should i plant it some where?
I have a gerbera Daisy growing indoors. When I bought it several months ago, it was in bloom. The flowers died, now, ne leaves grow in, only get so large and start to dry up, get very brittle, turn sort of a grey color. When I cut them off, new healthy looking green sprouts are starting to come up around the crown, but again only grow so large and start to dry up again. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. It gets about 4 hours of sunlight from the window, I’m very careful about watering, but nothing seems to work.
Thanks for your help.
Paulette
My boyfriend brought me home a potted gerbera daisy plant. It looked really good, lots of flowers, several new blooms, lots of big green leaves. I don’t know anything about plants so I found this site and I thought I did everything I read I was supposed to. I lightly misted the leaves alittle, put a few drops of plant food on the soil, watered it (but not directly in the crown), and kept the heat down. Well I woke up today and the whole thing has wilted. The flowers look pretty good, but the stems and leaves look pathetic. What did I do?? Is there any way I can fix it? Oh, also my boyfriend said he thinks the plant is ‘pot bound’, I don’t know what this means, but could it have anything to do with the sudden drastic change in my plant?
Is gerbera able to live without any direct sunlight?
I would like to place it in my kitchen, near the window, where there is plenty of bright light but no direct sunlight..
In other words I would like to grow it as a permanent indoor plant.
I just planted 2 beds full of beautiful Gerbera Daisies…the beds are raised and get the sun, and I am careful about how I water. The problem is that in just a day I came out and something has been chomping on the leaves, they leave large holes and sometimes just the veins are left. I checked with several growers and they thought it was slugs or snails…so I put out slug and snail bait but when I put out another bed of 30 plants last night (I sprayed the beds with sevin and put out slug bait) today I found some of the leaves were being eaten again. When I went to spray again, I notices something that looked like a grasshopper but it was very small almost like the size of a large mosquito but it was bright green and flew when I sprayed. Can you tell me if anyone knows what type of insect this could be and how do I keep it from having a party with my beautiful plants?
Thanks in advance,
Bren
information on woody mimulus, e.g., aurantiacus hybrids?
I’m glad this information about watering & crown rot is all in one place for a change. I have 4 Gerberas that I planted in my garden 5 days ago, 2 are doing well, the other 2 (the largest and the smallest) seem to be suffering. I did water them overhead, so I suspect crown rot. I read another article that said to mix 1tbsp of ordinary household 3% hydrogen peroxide solution per 8oz of water and pour it around the mulch / soil around the crown to treat and prevent this (avoiding contact with the plant as the peroxide will burn foliage). Is this a good measure to take?
Hi!
Thanks for all the great info. I planted 4 gerbers in full sun (not in a raised bed) and they thrived for about 4 weeks. We just returned from vacation (they got watered once a day) and they are all dying. I cut them all back and when fertilizing my knock out roses, I put about 1/4 c on each daisy in hopes to save them. I have been watering from the top, so I wonder if crown rot is the problem. Umm…
My question…is there anyway to save them? Maybe a specific fertilizer? Or should I simply pull them and try agian next year? I live in Southern Indiana. Oh and I hear different ideas on watering, if they are planted should they not be watered daily?
HELP!!! Thanks!
Thanks! No more question…could you give all of us gerbera challenged a list of tips for planting gerbers? What do we all need to know and do to make these beautiful flowers florish in the ground? If planting gerbers in landscaping with other plants (day lillies) is there anything specific I need to do? You mentioned a raised bed, but if not possible, would it work simply planting the gerbers higher…root ball above ground right?
I am having a problem similar to one already asked. the petals of my potted gerbers are being eaten. The response was that it may be slugs, which is what Isuspected but how do I get rid of them?
I have a white Gerbera daisy and the flowers are getting a green tinge to them, other than that the plant seems very healthy. Should I pinch the flowers because of this? what should I do?
I have the same short stem problem as Melilssa. However, when I bought the gerbera from Lowe’s (it it a spider gerbera) it already had the short stem problem apparently. I just thought there were lots of blooms coming but they never grow taller than 1/2 inch and most never open up. Is there any hope for these or should I just enjoy the foliage?
Thanks.
I have two wonderful daisies and they did AWESOME up until it started getting 100 degrees. I was diligently watering them, but after the hot hot hot weather passed, it looks like they are dying! i brought them inside (where we keep it about 70) and there has been no recovery. there is no powdery substance, but the leaves are wilted, and all curled up! Help! i dont want to have to go buy more plants! any tips? thank yoU!
I did my window boxes with coral color gerbera daisies. They get the morning sun and the boxes are against the brick of our house. I water them in the morning. They are doing wonderful, tall and full of color. My problem is that I am not seeing new flower sprouts coming up. The green foliage is bright and healthy looking with no signs of fungus, insects, etc. Is there something I can do to get new sprouts or does it just take time? I have about 3-4 flowers with each plant, but when they begin to wilt there will not be new flowers. I am pinching the wilting flowers off at the base of the plant. I am watering from the back of the window boxes. Any suggestions?
I bought a few Gerber daisies a week ago and have kept them in the green plastic pot they came in. They are placed in the spot where I plan to plant them to make sure they’ll be ok there. One of the Gerberas flowers wilted during the heat wave and the ribs of the leaves are red. Can I still save this plant? How?
Greetins. I live in tropical country where temperature all year round is 80.6 -96.8 F and is very humid here. I have tried hunting gerbera all around the city and have seen none. I found some cut gerbera which was transported from hill to the city. i wonder :
1. can i try to plant the gerbera from putting the stem of the cut flower into the soil?
2. would it be way too warm and way too humid to plant gerberra in temperature as such? I have heard ppl planting grapes in the same city and they water the grapes with iced-water (literrally water with ice). do i need to do that for my gerbera daisy to compensate for the hot & humid weather?
Thanks.
I live in London, and i recently bought a light pink Gerbera. I am intending to keep at as indoor plant on a windowsill, (in its plastic pot, inside a bigger white pot) which as its England, can not be very sunny at times.
I have noticed the tips of the petals have started to go brownish and a few spots are on one of the petals. Is this bad?
Is it a good idea to instead of watering the soil and risking crown rot, as it isnt a very big pot, to put water in the bigger white pot, and let the Gerbera suck up the water from the holes in the bottom of the plastic pot?
Also, should i be spraying the leaves? And what would be the best sort of fertilizer?
(January, Zone 5B) I have successfully over wintered a gerbera and have now divided it into six healthy cuttings. What tips to you recommend to encourage vigorous vegetative development? And, could you recommend ideal the lighting location in the garden morning/full/afternoon sunlight?
i have a Gerbera. Should I keep it inside for the winter?
I’ve been raising gerbers in pots outside for the last 2-3 years, and they’ve done well. They’ve gotten too full for the pots they’re in and need split and repotted, (the soil here sux) but I really don’t know exactly how to do it without killing them. Help please.
I live in zone 7 and planted several gerbera daisies in my flower bed last year. They are not showing any signs of life yet. If they survived the winter, when should I look for them to begin coming out?
I have several gerbera daisies from a funeral yesterday. I put them in a vase with water but I would love to be able to keep them as a houseplant or grow them outside. I live in zone 6. I read somewhere on here that they won’t grow roots so I’m guessing I need to get the seeds from them? How do I do this and what are the chances of survival? They are pink with green centers. Do they have a name?
I got a bunch of gerber daisies the other day. Two are doing great but the other two the flowers have wilted. One I think I may have over watered but the other one that is wilted, the soil is damp still but its wilted. I was told i should put them in more direct sun will that help or should I re-pot them? I have never had this problem with them wilting right away.
I live in So. Cal. and have several gerbera daisies that are two to three years old. While removing a dead flower, several leaves and what looks like the beginnings of a root crown broke loose from the main plant. Can I propagate this and if so, would it be better to pot it and keep it indoors or put it in water to see if roots sprout? Thanks! Your website is very helpful.
Hi
My gerberas are like pretty dead. They have one or two small leaves and no flowers. I dug them up the other day to see if something from below was affecting it but the roots looked really healthy and long (they’re in a pot) so i repotted them and nothing has grown since.
HELP!!!
if i had a garden of gerberas that were pulled from the root… will they still come back next season?
Gerbera color change
Hi,
Wonderful advice I’ve read in here, what a great service you provide.
I planted some bright pink and yellow gerberas a few months back, the yellow ones always come up
yellower and brighter than the last but the pink ones have faded now to white with just a hint of
pink. They are in a sunny spot (we are in a subtropical region) and the soil is great and well drained,
shall I just fertilise? Is there a particular nutrient which will help with colour? K or N?
I bought 6 gerber daisy plants. My first ever. We live in Mesa, AZ. I planted late, April 4, 2009. They did great. One day it was almost 100 degrees and one just wilted over and died.
So I was careful to make sure the other had mostly shade. After about 6 weeks of great blooms and a lot of leaf growth, the big pot with 3 plants in it began to fail. First one just withered and died and then the other and finally the last, biggest plant in center. The large plant had a daisy coming up, about 9 inches. It looked gorgeous in themorning and then died that evening. Broke my heart. It has been well over 100 every day for 3 weeks and yesterday it was 107. Just too much heat? Should I have brought them inside? I think I watered too much, once a day, and sometimes full on the plants. My geraniums and Nesium are doing really good.
I have 6 Gerber Daisy plants in my window box. So far this year, I have had several new blooms on each plant that were beautiful. This week, I’ve had a couple new blooms open up, but they are already turning brown. Before, the blooms lasted at least a couple of weeks before turning. Also, the new blooms aren’t growing as large, the stems are still just as long, but the flowers are smaller. I’ve read the they do better below 70 degrees. Its been around 80-85 here the last few weeks, would that be causing the problems with the blooms?
I have a couple of Gerbera plants that I would like to plant outdoors (I have not had luck with potted flowers and do not want to move them back and forth each season). I live in Seattle (Zone 8). We generally don’t have deep frosts, but everything stays wet all winter. Do you think my flowers have a chance of surviving this and coming back in spring? Any special advice for this climate?
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you once again as I see so many others have for all the great advice – tips & tricks for these beautiful Gerbera Daisies. It is so nice to find a site answering just about all your questions on just 1 of the many thousand perennial flowers. But I have a fork to throw in your so perfectly working – well oiled machine. You see I live in WNY where it would be considered murder to leave my Gerbera Daisies out ALL YEAR ROUND, but I do and I have never had one death, in fact I came to this site to see how early on in the spring could I perform surgery and separate some of the multiplication that has taken place over the past years so I can share their beauty elsewhere throughout my gardens. I did not find that answer – but I just wanted to flabbergast the readers on how 1st off I purchased these beauties at a Walmart on clearance for $1.00 a plant because it was so late in the season that year i bought them, that Walmat was basically giving them away, it was so picked over that there was hardly any left and what was left was a guessing game for me as to what color they maybe. I purchased $10.00 worth of very brown greens that were all bone dry. I fertilized and watered for a week before even deciding to transfer into the ground. But I did and the following year I had beautiful orange & red Gerbera daisies! I also wanted to add that I do not cover nothing in my Garden either – this is NY if I was really that dedicated I would be out there every night covering something with the way our weather is constantly changing!LOL.
Now this year has come and even though with starting out with only greens I somehow managed to put all the red together and oranges together as well. But I noticed that my hearty greens have multiplied quit a bit and before they grow any taller I was looking for a way to separate them so I could put them in other areas of my garden because you just can’t beat the beauty and height. But I did not find that answer – so anyone with experience separating a 1 year multiplication from garden to garden please contact me ASAP please chillytaurus@aol.com in subject line type in CAPS GARDEN HELP…. thanks so much to anyone who can help me out – it will so greatly be appreciated not just by me but my neighbors as well who all love looking at my garden as they stroll around the block for their fitness walks and what not.
I am thinking of going around the entire family of the Gerbera’s lightly with a spade shovel, then feeling with my hands what is capable of being separated – sounded safe and pretty much right on compared to some of the other questions – which there were very few!
But I really just needed to gloat because honestly I have just gotten into gardening these past few years or so and I really do not have a clue as to what zone I am in for planting wise, I usually wait till Walmart has their outdoor plant sale and pick and choose from there. Then get the flowers I purchased home – purchased only by color and what that plastic pick that is stuck in it says on it about care – like how much sun and what not – then I am good to go EXCEPT FOR THE GERBERAS – THEY HAVE ME ALL MESSED UP!
So anybody out there with some info on how to split the multiplying
We just got a beautiful “Festival Orange” Gerbera Daisy from a greenhouse about a week ago. We live near Denve, CO and have had it sitting on our countertop. It gets watered every morning, about a cup of water, and gets plenty of sunlight from our skylights. Just in the last 2 days, it has started growing a greyish- silverish mold on the leaves, but also a new flower has begun to grow. Is there a safe way to get rid of this pesky mold, or is the plant doomed, considering plants come to my house to die. I could give it back to our friend that got it from the greenhouse that works there, but could he do anything to save it? HELP… please! Thank you!
My mom got a gerbera after a funeral. The leaves are nice and healthy but the flowers all seem to get too heavy and droop. They have good color and no signs of fungus or bugs. I do not know if she is watering from the top or not. I will find that out tomorrow. She is planning to keep it in the house. Any idea on why the blooms are drooping or what can be done about it? Thanks.
I leave in the NE. Zone 7. Our gerba daisys did well for a week. Now I notice a bunch of bugs eating at it (these bugs seem to have an armoured coat and are shiny (green/yellow) with pinchers. The bugs look like they are also mating are leaving little holes in the plants. Help! I sprayed with an organic herbacide to kill the bugs, but wont be sure until I get home this evening. The daisys require watering everyday since they sit out in full sun. However, temps haven’t gone up past 83.
I just had surgery, and my friend brought over a gerbera plant when he came to visit. Right now, it seems to be doing fine, but I live in zone 5, and I’m wondering if there is any way to keep this plant alive. It’s so pretty
. At the moment, it’s sitting in my south-facing window, and I water it every few days. I’ve left it in the original plastic container he brought it over in, because I didn’t want to repot it if it was just going to die in a week or two. Should I be doing anything different? Will it survive–can I repot it? Should I be feeding it miracle grow like the rest of my houseplants? Thanks so much 
I live in western Pa. I planted gerbera daisies and African daisies this summer and they are doing great. I would like to know if they will survive the winter in my area (I kon’t know my zone) and what I can do to help them survive. Thank you, Joyce
Hi I got a gerbera daisie plant for my birthday (july12th) and it’s been slowly wilting. I’ve been watering it religiously and it’s in a spot with alot of sun but it still seems to be drying out. I’ve moved it outside to get more sun, is there anything else i can do to save my plant?
Wow so much information, TY. I live in Alberta Canada zone 3. I have purchased and potted numerous gerbers they are doing great. Can you tell me when to bring them in for the winter,when to put them back out, should I give them a haircut (when and how much), and is it really possible to have different coloured flowers from each plant? I am brand new to Gerbers and any info or sites would be more than welcome, ty.
This seems to be a great site. I became interested in Gerbers when I discovered all the wonderful colors they come in. They are an amazing flower. Last summer, I planted about 8 flowered gerbers in front of my home here in New York City. I really knew nothing about gardening, but I liked the look of the flowers and thought, “What the heck!.” They bloomed all summer into fall and as winter came, they wilted and browned. I did not prune them, but pretty much left them. In early spring of the following year, while cleaning up the front lawn, I pulled out all the decayed brown leaves. They came out quite easily but I noticed the leaves did not pull out the root. It was only the leaves themselves coming up. A few months later in late spring, I noticed very small green leaves coming up. I didn’t think it was possible in New York, but all the gerbers grew back this summer with a vengence. They are huge and yielding many flowers. I even took some seeds and have now baby gerbers growing in my kitchen in little terracota pots. I plan to hold those baby ones until next summer. I’m just puzzled as to how they survived a winter in NY where we get plenty of snow. Any thoughts you have on this would be appreciated. I’m thinking that since they are in a part of the lawn up against the house, they somehow stayed warm? Is that possible?
I live in the Washington DC area so I seem to be right on the edge of the annual/perennial zone. I planted about 15 gerbera daisies in my yard this spring and I really want them to make it through the winter. They are doing really well now, despite the fact that I seem to be doing everything wrong! They are in a partially raised, mulched bed surrounding a large maple tree and get sun early in the morning. If needed, I water them with a sprinkler in the evening. I have never fertilized. They all have beautiful foliage and 1/4 to 1/3 have several bright flowers at any given time. How do I keep them alive through the winter? I read to cover them. Do I trim back the leaves first? When should they be covered? I am assuming before the first frost. How deep is ‘heavily’? Any other tricks? Thanks!
Can anyone give me more information on how to take basal cuttings? I’ve been cutting off leaves at the brownish twiggy part and dipping in rooting hormone but i dont know if the plants have taken root. There does not seem to be any new growth. Am i doing it right?
How do you take basal cuttings? I’ve been cutting individual leafs at the brown twiggy parts. Is that the correct method?
Yes I’m trying to grow more gerbera daisies from the plant i have. Can you tell me where to cut?
Raising the crown
- rdhagerty@sbcglobal.net – I have 3 gerberas in clay pots on the porch. First time to grow. Have bloomed periodically all summer. Notice they are now really heavy with foliage. I’ve been reading to have the crown above the dirt level. I’m not sure what the crown is. Saw where one person puts a pitchfork under the crown when start to have foliage in the sprinng and raises 2 “. Could I do this to a plant in a pot lush with foliage this time of the year. My husband says he can make something small to work like a pitchfork.
Please give me the steps how to get seeds from a gerbera flower.
Gerbera water problem
Hi! I need some serious help. I recently got a beautiful potted gerbera from my boyfriend and I think I’ve KILLED it!! Because I placed the pot into a larger pot, I didn’t notice that it wasn’t draining properly. The flowers wilted, which I thought was normal, so I removed them from the base. It was then that I realized there was standing water in the bottom, so I removed it and drained the plant. To help dry it out, I placed it in the sunlight yesterday afternoon outside. After reading here, though, I think I might’ve made it worse by SHOCKING the poor thing!
Basically, the leaves look like wilted lettuce at this point – still dreen but very wrinkled and limp/drooping. I’m nervous to water it at all at this point. I just want to nurse it back to health – any suggestions?! Thank you!!
I planted four gerbera daisy plants this past summer and they have bloomed wonderfully through the whole summer and now into the start of fall in ohio. I know there isn’t a chance of wintering, so I was wondering how exactly to transport them to be an indoor plant for the winter so I can replant them in the spring.
Also, since they looked so beautiful, I was thinking of planting some purchased seeds to make a bigger garden next year. Would it be best to start those seeds inside and if so, how and when? Or would it be best to wait until the spring? If so, how and when?
Thanks!