The Cut-leaf Daisy – Brachyscome multifida
Cut-leaf Daisy – Brachyscome multifida. Flowers.
The Cut-leaf Daisy “ Brachyscome multifida is a great garden feature plant. It has loads of pretty mauve-pink colored flowers which are present for a long time throughout spring and summer. This plant forms a dense mat and covers the ground thickly. It is perfect for use under trees, in rockeries (it can trail/overhang raised areas), along path or step edgings and binds and holds well on embankments.
Being a local indigenous plant it is a fantastic ground cover plant that can support local biodiversity too. It’s abundant flowers provide nectar for a variety of insects and the plant itself is a great hiding place for small frogs and reptiles like garden skinks.
If you are interested in buying it for your garden try to source a local variety from a nursery that specialises in local indigenous and/or native plants. This is a commonly sold garden plant and there are many nurseries that sell modifed versions of this plant. It is also the perfect plant to replace the weedy Seaside Daisy - Erigeron karvinskianus which is often found in many gardens.
Cut-leaf Daisy “ Brachyscome multifida. Ground cover plant.
Nurseries have readily cultivated the Cut-leaf Daisy using techniques such as hybridisation to select for features such as flower abundance, duration etc that will sell well. These modifed specimens particularly if planted near local bushland can reproduce and mix with the local varieties and potentially alter the local/indigenous varieties ability to survive in the local area. The local features are really best suited to the area as they have evolved over many years to cope with the local environment.
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