Gerbera daisies just make you want to smile! These have long-lasting blooms that come in a variety of bright, happy colors from sunny yellow and hot pink, to bright orange and burgundy among others. Many varieties have bicolored petals showing off multiple colors. They’re quite striking and can be grown in containers or in garden beds.
Native to Africa, Gerbera daisies bloom from late spring through autumn. Gerbera daisies also make great flowers for arrangements in vases, so they’re a fun plant to add to a cutting garden. (Read our .
) Pollinators love them, too, and the flat flower heads make them especially alluring to butterflies and bees. (Here's .) Gerbera daisy flowers can be several inches across atop long, leafless stems above clumps of fuzzy foliage.
They can have single petals, rows of double overlapping petals, crested petals with a ring of smaller petals just around the center, or spidery, pointy petals. I'm a garden writer with more than 15 years of experience growing houseplants, herbs and edibles, and landscape plantings. My houseplant collection includes more than 60+ plants, while my expansive garden includes new annuals, perennials and shrubs that I trial for performance and reliability.
I also test home and garden products to evaluate practicality and durability. Gerbera daisy, Gerber daisy, African daisy, Transvaal daisy Asteraceae Annual, or perennial in USDA zones 8 to 10 Africa Part sun 1 foot tall and wide No Gerbera daisies grow well in average, w.