Bracteantha 'Golden Beauty Improved' provides bright golden straw flowers covering neat, mounding green foliage year-round.
Among the best of the Sundaze paper daisies, ‘Golden Beauty Improved’ is sunshine on a stem providing year-round flowering of golden straw flowers on tiny mounds of soft, green leaves. Easy to grow in sunny garden beds in many areas of Australia.
The smooth, paper-like flowers of 'Golden Beauty Improved' brighten any garden or potted planting. They look wonderful scattered here and there through rockeries or mass-planted in a sunny, well-aired garden. Bracteantha Sundaze are also a welcome splash of colour in water-wise combination planting in feature pots. They make beautiful fresh or dried flower arrangements.
Bracteantha Sundaze perform best in full sun but will tolerate light shade. They withstand high temperatures and rainy periods. They need a free-draining soil but do best if kept evenly moist until established. Dry soil may result in reduced flowering, leaf yellowing and wilting. Water the soil to avoid wetting foliage which encourages mildew, especially in humid conditions. The flowers also close when wet, even under a heavy dew. An occasional light application of a balanced fertiliser or liquid feed is recommended, and regular picking of flowers and the removal of seed heads and light pruning will prolong the flowering period and plant life. Cut flowers are best picked in the early morning or late evening. Select flower stems with full buds that are beginning to unfold the outer bracts. Stems may be kept fresh in water or dried by hanging upside down in an airy place.
Also known as straw flowers or Australian paper daisies, Bracteantha are traditionally multi-coloured and short lived. Modern breeding has given us improved perennial garden forms with attractive flowers in many sizes and colours. Bracteantha bracteata are native to Australia and are widespread throughout the continent. The Sundaze series are bred by Dr Kerry Bunker of Floreta Pty Ltd for their compact habit, long flowering period and disease resistance, and have been popular throughout Europe and North America for a number of years, having won many horticultural awards.
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