24 different flowers are featured: including crocus, primrose,
African daisy, pansy, tulip, bleeding heart, forget-me-not, columbine, bluebell, and rose, and more.
Best bets for your sunny coastal garden are Mediterranean-climate shrubs and perennials from 1-gallon containers, such as rockrose (Cistus), sea lavender (Limonium perezii), and trailing
African daisy (Osteospermum fruticosurn).
These include
African daisy, calendula, antirrhinum, petunia, stock and verbena and gladioli, which can be planted at 10-day intervals for blooming in the coming spring.
Strictly speaking, this lovely South
African daisy should be impossible to overwinter outdoors in Britain and, for a few years after it became popular in the 1980s, it was confined to pots where it thrived if taken under cover at the end of summer.