Creating a wonderful carpet of landscape color, Dimorphotheca sinuata (Cape Marigold) is an upright to sprawling annual boasting remarkably large, orange or yellow, daisy-like blooms, up to 3 in. wide (7 cm). Borne singly at the tip of reddish stems.
Dimorphotheca plants should be watered in the morning and care should be taken not to get the leaves wet to prevent rot. As a general rule of thumb, daisies usually require approximately 1 to 2 inches of water per week during the summer, either through irrigation, normal rainfall, or a combination of both. During spring and fall, daisies benefit from about 1 to 2 inches of water applied every other week.
After the flowering season the stems should be cut back to ground level if you plan to grow them as a perennial.