What is name of this plant

Hi
Does anyone know

• Name of this plant
• Does it flower every year or does it just flower for one season and then die
• If flower every year is it suitable to plant in ground/flower bed or is better suited to a pot/container?
• What is the flowering season/months?
• Anything special need to be aware off if transplanting into ground

I have it in container at present but it getting too big and was going to transplant it into ground if it seasons every year

Thanks

 

Hi

Its a very well grown "Osteospermum"

Great for pots

Best kept in the greenhouse over winter its a slightly hardy but wont take minus freezing it will perish

Easy to take some cuttings
Flowers from May till the 1st frost if you dead head and keep well fed and watered , like full sun

 

Hi Woo @wiseowl

Did you have any that survived the winters off 2011/12 ?

also I dont know Where Passport is from ?

 

Owl egg

 

That type of Osteospermum has never survived a winter in my garden.
Only ever treated it as a summer bedding plant.

 

Thanks All for the replies
I'm based in Dublin
Sounds like though this plant isn't really suited for planting into ground as probably wouldn't survive winter frosts and best enjoyed as potted plant :-)

 

Dublin you say, if you can keep it a bit dry it might stand a good chance to overwinter outside.