Gazania rigens New Day® Red Shades – Fiery red flowers for garden and pot

Gazania rigens New Day® Red Shades is a striking, sun-loving perennial, specially developed for uniform flowering, robust growth, and long-lasting performance. This high-quality Gazania series combines large, bright red flowers, compact growth, and sturdy stems, making it an excellent choice for garden beds, pots, and hanging baskets.

Thanks to their compact habit and shorter flower stems, the plants are robust and easy to produce, while maintaining excellent shelf life at retail. Ideal for dense cultivation in trays, small pots, or commercial production, New Day® Red Shades delivers reliable and colorful blooms with deep red accents that are instantly noticeable.

Features of Gazania New Day Red Shades

• Flowers: large, bright red, uniform and showy

• Flowering period: long lasting flowering from early to late season

• Growth habit: compact, sturdy and uniform, suitable for dense cultivation

• Uses: borders, pots, combination bowls, hanging baskets and ground cover

• Drought tolerance: suitable for sunny, dry locations

• Production quality: robust, easy to grow and has a good shelf life in trade

The New Day® Red Shades variety offers a more uniform bloom than traditional Gazanias, giving any garden bed, pot, or hanging basket a well-maintained and harmonious appearance. The robust structure of the plants ensures they remain strong and beautiful even after intensive use, transport, or sale.

Growing instructions

Gazania rigens New Day® Red Shades is easy to grow and thrives under various conditions:

• Location: full sun for optimal flowering and color intensity

• Soil: Well-drained; drought-tolerant and suitable for poor to average soil

• Water: Water moderately; once established the plant is drought tolerant

• Maintenance: regularly removing faded flowers encourages further flowering and maintains a compact shape.

Thanks to its compact growth and robust stems, this Gazania is ideal for dense cultivation in trays, small pots, or commercial production. The plants remain stable, vigorous, and uniform, making them excellent performers in both residential and retail gardens.

Decorative and functional applications

Gazania New Day Red Shades is versatile in use in gardens, patios, and landscaping:

• Pots and combination trays: compact, colorful plants for terraces, balconies and patios

• Hanging baskets: ideal for hanging plants thanks to sturdy stems and long-lasting flowering

• Garden borders and borders: fiery red flowers create a striking accent

• Ground cover: drought tolerant and easy to plant out for natural cover

• Drought tolerance: suitable for sunny, warm and dry locations

Benefits of Gazania New Day® Red Shades

• Bright red flowers: fiery color accents for gardens, pots, and borders

• Compact and robust: ideal for pots, borders and commercial production

• Long lasting blooms: flowers remain bright and attractive for a long time

• Drought tolerant: suitable for sunny and dry environments

• Versatile: borders, ground cover, hanging baskets and pots

• Easy to produce: strong plants that tolerate close cultivation well

Why choose Gazania rigens New Day® Red Shades?

Gazania New Day Red Shades combines vibrant color, long-lasting blooms, and robust performance in a single plant. Its uniform and compact growth makes it perfect for gardens, patios, borders, and commercial production. Thanks to its long flowering period and drought tolerance, this Gazania is an excellent choice for professional gardeners and hobbyists seeking bright red flowers, versatile applications, and reliable performance.

Whether you want to enhance a border, pot combination or hanging basket, New Day® Red Shades offers a long period of color, robust growth and ecological value, making it a perfect choice for gardens and commercial plantings.