Gerbera Dasies Taking their Sweet Time

Nursery grown Gerbera

This a healthy and rich looking Gebera daisy that I bought from Green Circle Growers and transplanted into my Deegan magic soil. The leaves are lush and the petals are wide and plentiful. Geberas are about $4.00 a piece so it adds up.

It is a tradition of mine to buy three or four and plant them in the same large flower pot and place them on the front porch for my wife Nancy to enjoy. She loves the gerbera daisies because they have rich green foilage and bright and beautiful pastel blooms. While I purchased a few for potting up this year  I  thought I would like try growing my own. I learned  on line quickly that the seeds are hard to find. after extensive searching I finally found a source and bought 100 seeds.

Home Grown Gerbera Blooms

The seeds took forever to germinate and grew painfully slow. To the point that I had to put them into the basement under grow lights as the danger of frost came early this year. Iam  showing a few pictures of the Gerberas that I grew. They tend to have slim petals and not as full a bloom. They almost look more like traditional daisies than Gerberas. I have the seed company name somewhere and I am thinking of writing them a letter and pehaps including pictures.

This bloom to the left looks thicker than it is because this is a close up.