Florist’s Cineraria
Pericallis X hybrida (formerly Senecio X hybridus). ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE).
Planting and Growing Florist’s Cineraria
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow florist’s cineraria in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of florist’s cineraria
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for florist’s cineraria
- Season of bloom and planting time for florist’s cineraria
- When, how deep, and where to plant florist’s cineraria
- How to plant florist’s cineraria
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of florist’s cineraria
- Landscape and container uses of florist’s cineraria
- Comments about florist’s cineraria and its features
Growing Florist’s Cineraria
Many cultivars of mounding or branching, evergreen perennial herbs, 1–3 ft. (30–90 cm) tall. Gray green to light green, heart-shaped, coarsely cut, fragrant leaves, 3–5 in. (75–125 mm) long.
Sometimes mislabeled in the garden trade as Cineraria stellata or Senecio X hybridus).
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many blue, pink, purple, red, violet, white, multicolored, round, flat, open, scalloped flowers, 3–5 in. (75–125 mm) wide, often with contrasting or white centers, in spring–early summer.
Best Climates
Tender. Self-seeding. Plant as annual, zones 3–7; ground hardy, zones 8–10. Best in mild, cool-summer climates.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full to filtered sun, 8–10 in. (20–25 cm) apart, after soil warms.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Fertilize monthly. Pinch to promote bushiness. Protect from frost. Propagate by cuttings, division, seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for accents, beds, borders, containers, massed plantings in cottage, formal, small-space gardens. Disease resistant. Aphid, mealybug, leaf miner, spider mite, slug, snail susceptible.