This pretty pink flowering native daisy is a hardy and attractive Australian native plant that makes a lovely low border in a cottage or pollinator garden. Brachyscome Pacific Reef flowers continuously in my garden, providing colour all year even in winter, with it’s best flush of colour in late spring to summer. It is a lovely small flowering plant for cottage garden borders. Pollinators also love Brachyscome flowers – particularly because they flower continuously, providing welcome pollen when there are fewer flowers in my garden beds.

It is a lightly suckering variety, which means it can spread out slowly to fill a space. But it does not spread aggressively or very far. This also means it can repair patches that are damaged, such as if you have a dog that can damage parts of the garden from time to time like me!

It doesn’t need any pruning or maintenance, unlike many other Brachyscome which I find need pruning or dead heading regularly to keep looking nice. It handles drought well, although in the worst of the 2019 drought in Sydney it was knocked back a little. That was an extreme and extended dry though, that lasted many years, and it has come back beautifully now.