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Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty

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6 growers · 4 sizes · from $6.60 ex GST

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Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty ('Balostlueye') is a compact osteospermum with bright yellow daisies, each with a blue eye at the centre, on an upright, mounded plant about 25 to 35 cm high and 35 to 50 cm wide. Its United States plant patent places it in Osteospermum ecklonis, the species GBIF and the Australian Plant Census now accept as Dimorphotheca ecklonis.
Illustration of Osteospermum 'Blue Eyed Beauty': one daisy flower held upright above spoon-shaped, sparsely toothed, glossy leaves, its bright yellow ray petals ringing a blue central eye with a purple halo
Osteospermum 'Blue Eyed Beauty', one flower above its leaves
Height
0.25 m to 0.35 m
Spread
0.35 m to 0.5 m
Flowers
Bright yellow, summer into autumn (RHS, British); spring through autumn outdoors (United States plant patent); no Australian text gives a season
Sun
Full sun
Drought
Tolerant
Frost
Half-hardy: RHS H3
In Australia
Naturalised
GrowerPrice
Domus Nursery350mm$7.00
Tavistock Nursery140mm$6.60
Lumpys Nursery & Landscape Yard140mm$14.98
Nielsen's Native Nursery140mm$6.95
Azalea Grove Nursery180mm$10.16
Scotsburn Nurseries200mmPrice on application. Sign in to ask the grower.

Also grown by 2 nurseries (no sizes or prices listed)

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Growing osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty

The RHS treats it as a half-hardy biennial and rates it H3, hardy in the UK's coastal and milder districts; in frosty areas it keeps cuttings under glass over winter. No Australian reference read gives a frost figure for it. The RHS asks for a warm, sunny position and a light, moderately fertile soil that drains well, says it copes with poor soil, salt and drought, and has it deadheaded regularly and tidied in spring with no other pruning.

It is protected by a United States plant patent. The patent records that neither seed nor fruit has been seen on it, and that no resistance to the usual osteospermum pests and diseases has been observed; the RHS adds aphids, downy mildew and verticillium wilt as possible problems.

The census records its species, Dimorphotheca ecklonis, naturalised in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and that is the status this page shows for the cultivar.

Using osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty

The RHS lists it for containers and patios, bedding, borders, and coastal, gravel and courtyard gardens, and counts it among its plants for pollinators. For a bed of it, the spacing the company gives on its Australian page, 30 to 40 cm, puts plants at about 0.35 m centres. Growers list other Beauty forms beside it, Pink Eyed Beauty, Blushing Beauty and Sunshine Beauty among them, each under its own name.

What to check before you buy

It is sold as Blue Eyed Beauty. The cultivar name in its plant patent and in the RHS synonyms is 'Balostlueye', and the RHS also files it under Dimorphotheca ecklonis, so check that quotes from different growers are for the same plant. The HortOS guide to reading an availability list explains how a list's plant column can carry a cultivar, a common name or a breeder's code. Root, pest and hardening-off checks are covered in the guide to nursery plant quality, and stock crossing state lines moves under state and territory biosecurity rules.

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Common questions

Who grows Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty wholesale in Australia?
6 wholesale growers list Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty come in?
Growers on HortOS list Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty in 140mm, 180mm, 200mm and 350mm.
What does Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty cost wholesale?
The median trade price in a 140 mm pot is $6.95 ex GST, across 3 growers who price it. Prices by pot size and state are on its trade price page.
How do I order Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty from these growers?
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How big does Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty grow?
The product page of the company that markets it in Australia gives 25 to 35 cm high and 35 to 50 cm wide, with plants 30 to 40 cm apart. The RHS gives a height to 35 cm.
What colour is Blue Eyed Beauty?
Bright yellow petals with a blue eye at the centre. The RHS describes a mid-purple halo at the base of the petals around the eye, the company's Australian page a white centre ring, and the plant patent sums the flower up as medium yellow and dark purple.
Where does Blue Eyed Beauty come from?
Its United States plant patent says it originated in 2011 in a controlled breeding programme in California, from a cross of two Osteospermum ecklonis breeding selections, and was picked out as a single flowering plant among the seedlings in 2012.
Is Blue Eyed Beauty part of the Serenity series?
The RHS lists it as 'Serenity Blue Eyed Beauty' in the Serenity series, the series of Serenity Red. Its plant patent names it only 'Balostlueye', and the company's Australian product page sells it simply as Blue Eyed Beauty.

Sources

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Osteospermum Blue Eyed Beauty (Osteospermum 'Blue Eyed Beauty'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/osteospermum-blue-eyed-beauty.

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