Gardening Notebook

Keep your spirits up during the last days of winter with cheerful daisies outdoors and fabulous greenery indoors.

- Gillian Eva

JUMP ON THE DAISY TRAIN

Brighten up your borders with the striking blooms of daisy bushes – they all flourish in full-sun borders or in containers on a sunny patio.

• English daisy (Bellis perennis) A fast grower with uniquely rounded red, white and pink flowers, it provides colour from winter to spring.

• Cape daisy (Osteospermum) Indigenous and waterwise in deep shades of many magical colours, they flower from spring to autumn.

• Marguerite daisy (Argyranthemum) Available in single and double flowers, with hues for every mood, these daisies will attract butterflies to your garden. They flower from spring to autumn.

Other pretty daisies to try: Livingstone daisy, golden daisy bush, Shasta daisy, kingfisher daisy and Barberton daisy.

Bedazzle your bathroom

Add lush radiance to well-lit bathrooms with these beauties – they do well in the ambient mist and steam as they particularly enjoy humidity: