Description
New to our catalogue for 2025.
A hardy creeping Diascia with rose pink flowers from Spring into Autumn.
This hardy Diascia is a great plant for the garden with its deep green foliage and rich pink flowers. Grown in full sun to semi shade it will flower multiple times with a good cut back after each flowering flush. Perfect for borders, large alpine gardens and containers.
Flowering: Summer- Autumn
Hardiness: Hardy
Height: 50cm
Spread: 50cm
Further information:
After the first flowering in late spring early summer, cut back fairly hard to get new growth. In the winter leave the old flowering stems on as protection and cut them back in early spring.
Common Name:
Life Cycle: perennial
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Foliage: ovate / crenate
Basic Colour: ( pink )
Flower Colour: Pink
Natural Flowering: May – September
Winter Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height with Flowers: 50cm
Soil Requirements: average / moist / dry / well-drained / sandy
Soil ph: acidic / alkaline / neutral
Location: container / cottage garden / border / rock garden
Usage: ornamental / bee food plant / attracts butterflies / ground cover / mat forming
Pruning: cut back to 3cm after flowering to encourage further flowering, this can be done 2-3 times in an average year
Tolerates: drought tolerant
Origin: Cultivar
Jean (verified owner) –
Tony Crabb (verified owner) –
I used to grow D vigilant and D rigescens years ago so I look forward to seeing this species in action. Nice potful which isn’t always the case these days.