What We Have Learned About #Growing Red Gerbera #Daisies! #flower #flowers

We have been admiring Red Gerbera Daisies for the last few years at our local garden nursery. This Spring, we decided to buy a hanging basket of 4 daisy plants!

We took 2 plants out of the hanging basket and planted them in separate containers, and we kept the original hanging basket on our deck since it gets filtered morning sun.

When the flowers begin to fade, it’s time to prune! Pruning is good for flowering plants because it redirects the plant’s energy to produce new blooms.

As we mentioned earlier, we placed 2 of the plants in containers hanging from a stair railing in our backyard. My gardening partner decided to turn on the sprinkler to water the plants which was a big mistake! Gerbera daisies are susceptible to fungus and they don’t like their leaves watered, especially from overhead sprinklers.

We prefer natural solutions to powdery mildew fungus, so we tried sprinkling cinnamon on the leaves to arrest the fungus.

After 3 weeks of sprinkling cinnamon on the leaves, we finally began seeing a difference. The fungus cleared up on the existing leaves, but the new growth was still covered with fungus … We found another natural solution … We sprayed a mix of Palmolive liquid dish detergent and water on the new growth and it appears to be working!

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