The Daisy (Compositae) family is vast and occupies many beds on the Systematic complex that occupies three acres of the south-west of the Botanic Garden site. Fast-growing annuals are making a real splash from the fiery tangerine frills of Arctotis fastuosa to the upright stems of Acrolinium roseum ‘Pierrot’ are topped with bright white capitula, the long petalled florets arranged in a perfect swan-lake tutu around a flat central disc of tightly arranged brown flowers, edged around the circumference in yellow.
Perennial representatives of the Compositae are also getting going with the aptly named [i]Inula magnifica[/i] making a tall and statuesque plant covered in large, bright acid yellow flowers of thin ribbons of petals fringing a central, orange disc.