How many times have I seen ‘Zulu Prince’ Cape daisy at the back of a seed catalog and thought, “Hmm, I should try that sometime”? But I always pass it up.

Well, this year I tried it, and it’s a great little annual.

I ordered this plant as Venidium fastuosum from Pinetree Garden Seeds, but after digging around on the interwebs, I think the correct current name is Arctotis fastuosa var. alba ‘Zulu Prince’. The species is commonly known as monarch-of-the-veldt or Cape daisy.

It’s attractive to bees, which make off with the pollen before the flowers close in late afternoon.