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Osteospermum Serenity Red

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4 growers · 2 sizes · from $5.50 ex GST

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Osteospermum Serenity Red ('Balsered') is a compact osteospermum of the Serenity series, with deep brick-red daisies veined darker red around a deep red centre from summer into autumn, by the RHS. It makes a mounded plant about 25 to 36 cm high and 35 to 51 cm wide in full sun.
Illustration of Osteospermum 'Serenity Red': daisy flowers with deep brick-red petals veined darker red around a deep red central disc, above spoon-shaped, sparsely toothed, glossy leaves
Osteospermum 'Serenity Red', flowers and leaves
Type
Evergreen perennial
Height
0.25 m to 0.36 m
Spread
0.35 m to 0.51 m
Flowers
Brick red, summer into autumn (RHS, British); no Australian text gives a season
Sun
Full sun
Drought
Tolerant
Frost
Half-hardy: RHS H3
In Australia
Naturalised
GrowerPrice
Tavistock Nursery140mm$6.60
Yackandandah Valley Nursery140mm$6.25
Winterley Nurseries Pty Ltd150mm$5.50
Nielsen's Native Nursery140mm$6.95

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

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Growing osteospermum Serenity Red

The RHS calls it a half-hardy perennial. Its rating is H3, hardy in coastal and relatively mild UK districts, and where frost is a risk the RHS overwinters cuttings under glass; no Australian reference read gives a frost figure. The RHS asks for a warm, sunny position and a light soil of middling fertility that drains, says the plant copes with poor soil, salt and drought, and has it deadheaded often and tidied in spring with no other pruning.

The company's culture notes for the series, a production sheet for growers, list aphids, whitefly and thrips among its pests, and root and stem rot and botrytis among its diseases; the RHS names aphids, downy mildew and verticillium wilt.

Its species, Dimorphotheca ecklonis, is recorded by the census as naturalised in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales; the facts card carries that species status.

Using osteospermum Serenity Red

The company that markets it in Australia offers it to the trade for cool-season containers and landscapes, and its culture notes call the series a full-season performer in coastal markets. For a bed, the company's spacing of 40 to 50 cm puts plants at about 0.45 m centres. Growers list other Serenity colours beside it, Rose Magic, Coral Magic, White, Bronze and Pink among them, each under its own name, and the RHS files Blue Eyed Beauty in the same series.

What to check before you buy

Growers list it as Serenity Red. The RHS gives the cultivar name 'Balsered' and files it under Dimorphotheca ecklonis as well as Osteospermum, so match the name across quotes before comparing them. What to check in the roots and for pests, and how a hardened-off plant shows, is in the HortOS guide to nursery plant quality. Moving stock interstate follows the state and territory biosecurity rules.

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Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Osteospermum Serenity Red wholesale in Australia?
4 wholesale growers list Osteospermum Serenity Red on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Osteospermum Serenity Red come in?
Growers on HortOS list Osteospermum Serenity Red in 140mm and 150mm.
What does Osteospermum Serenity Red cost wholesale?
The median trade price in a 140 mm pot is $6.60 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 Serenity Red from these growers?
HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
How big does Osteospermum Serenity Red grow?
The company's Australian product page puts it at 25 to 35 cm high and 35 to 50 cm wide, planted 40 to 50 cm apart; its culture notes for the series give 25 to 36 cm high and 36 to 51 cm wide. The RHS puts its maximum height and spread in its 0.1 to 0.5 m band.
What is the Serenity series?
A series of osteospermum colours sold by the company that markets Serenity Red. Its culture notes for the series list Red beside Dark Purple, Coral Magic, Lavender Frost, Deep Yellow, Bronze, Pink and others, and say all the varieties share the same branching.
Who bred Serenity Red?
No reference read says. The RHS, the company's Australian product page and its culture notes all name it, but none gives a breeder or a year.
Is Serenity Red a form of Osteospermum ecklonis?
Yes, by the company's Australian page, which gives Osteospermum ecklonis as its scientific name, and by the RHS, which files it under Dimorphotheca ecklonis. GBIF and the Australian Plant Census now accept that species as Dimorphotheca ecklonis, with Osteospermum ecklonis as a synonym.

Sources

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Osteospermum Serenity Red (Osteospermum 'Serenity Red'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/osteospermum-serenity-red.

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