• Use outdoors as a bedding or border plant or grow gravel garden, a container, or rockery.
• Evergreen annual to perennial
• Best in Spring and Summer
• Likes sun
• Hardy
• Attracts butterflies
• Attractive if short-lived, cut flowers.
• Tolerates coastal conditions
• Propagate from seed in Autumn or from stem cuttings in Spring.
• Height (m) : 0.2 to 0.25
• Spread (m) : 0.5 to 0.6


• Aphids and leaf-minors may be problem.
• Notes : Genus of about 50 species. Flower colours include orange, white, pink, red, apricot and yellow.