gazania question?

Question

i've had a brilliant show from mine this year, will they over-winter? and what's the best way to store them?
i live in the pennines, lancashire, england

Answer 1

Gazania are quite tender to cold. If your winters hover below 40 degrees F, I don't believe you'll be able to keep them. You can, however, cut them back pretty severely, pot them up and bring them indoors. Keep them as dry as they can stand, give them as much sunlight as you can and you should be able to help them along until spring. If your winters in Lancashire don't often drop to near freezing temps, you could winter the Gazania, prune them up in spring and feed them back to bloom when the sun is strong again. One note: Gazania are annuals and come easily from cuttings of seed. You won't have the same plants live for very many seasons, no matter what your winters are like.

Answer 2

Generally, a gazania will not survive a winter (it is a tropical plant). I have had some survive long enough that I thought they would make it, but an extra-cold snap has always ended them. You may get some self-sowing (including in some unexpected places), but I find this is usually inadequate for the following year. I have not tried to store gazanias.

Answer 3

Gazanias are annuals in all zones and only perennials in zones 8 - 24. I would say yours would not over winter outside.
However, in cold areas you can carry them through the winter by taking cuttings the same as you would for pelargoniums.

Answer 4

I planted some last year and just left them alone to fend for themslves and had an even bigger display this year. Some are still flowering now and loads of seeds being blown everywhere. Live on south coast

Answer 5

Here you go. Do they smell as good as they look? I'll take a small cutting, please?

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantoftheweek/plantweekmaxfram.htm