Celmisia

Celmisia - Charming Daisy-like plants from New Zealand, where they fill the mountain meadows with cushions of downy leaves covered with glistening Daisy-like flowers. There are upwards of thirty kinds, differing more in leaf than in their flowers, which are mostly white, though sometimes purple and very variable in size. They grow in varied situations, some in swamps, some in dry shingly places, others on moist river-banks or the gritty mountain side. To succeed with them we need therefore to know just how each grows in its own country, and things are made more difficult by the fact that they are not fully hardy with us, and seem to dislike the moisture that gathers on their hairy leaves and stems in a wet season. The few kinds that have been introduced have never become common, though they may be seen doing well here and there. The following are in cultivation:—

Related Flowers:

Celmisia Coriacea
Celmisia Haastii
Celmisia Lindsayi
Celmisia Monroei
Celmisia Ramulosa
Celmisia Spectabilis