I went through this same mix-up last winter. By doing lots of research, I realized that Dimorphotheca seems to have flowers in the yellow range only, is annual, and has flat,papery, pale seeds. It seems that Osteospermum has shades in white/blue/purple shades, is perennial, has little brown triangular ridged seeds, and the seeds are quite expensive when compared to Dimorphotheca. For this reason, I am trying my best to stick to the Latin names if I have them, as my friend who owns a seed company has been trying to impress upon me for years! The Dimorphotheca seeds I got in a trade this year have germinated and are doing well. A gardening neighbour had promised to split some of her Osteospermums this spring and share them with me but unfortunately, she passed away suddenly of a stroke on Dec. 26. I will miss her so much this year. Her house has been sold and I hope the new owners don't destroy her garden. She was 3 years into a 5 year project to create a meadow garden and it was coming along so nicely. I'll buy seeds and plant them in her memory. Northerner.

* Silver Princes Shasta Daisy (I grew these plants from seed three years ago) * Crazy Daisy Shasta Daisy (NEW! Growing from seed this year. The flowers look like Marguerites! Very frilly.) * Gloriosa Daisy (growing them from seed) - Love these big Sunset yellow and orange flowers. Reminds of a desert sunset on the mesa. I have some Clara Curtis seeds I got in a trade. Never have tried to grow them yet. Guess I'll give them a try. Thanks for reminding me, Glenda! They sure are pretty. I have English Daisy seeds to sow in April. I direct seed them into the garden every year. So pretty. Not sure that you would call these daisies, but I bought a one little pot of Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' & one of Coreopsis hybrida 'Sweet Dreams' Coreopsis last year. I planted the Moonbeam in the potager. There a dozens of tiny seedlings coming up around where the mother plant was. They are growing to the front of a bed of Double Pink Knock Out Rose and Double Yellow Knock Out Roses. Moonbeam's soft, buttery yellow color will look pretty in with those roses. Self-seeded Chamomile is coming up and California poppies that I planted on the 15th are up. Tall Mauve Bread seed are everywhere in that area of the garden. I never know where they will move to each year. Pink & white Tasha Tudor HH's transplanted behind against the fence and Black and Blue Salvias I moved back there last fall. I transplanted a Don Juan (cl) rose back there to grow on the fence. Larkspurs and Heleniums are coming up on the other end and white Baby's Breath. Bright Periwinkles and white and purple Sweet Allysum will probably coming back from seeds, and who knows what else. I love bold splashes of color throughout my garden. I don't know if the Sweet Dreams reseeds or not since it is a hybrid, but the plant kicked it - darn it. Sweet Dreams Coreopsis is pink with purple to red centers. Very unusual colors for a Coreopsis. ~Annie

If your talking about Wedelia paludosa, it's very easy in soil or water. I've seen it make 3/8" roots in 2 days, in water. Jim

By the way people here's what I think i'll do; I know what pigweed looks like so I'll wait till they grow out the grayish pointy flowers or whatever the they're called. If I see such a thing then I'll waste this whole pot and start with fresh soil. Unless the tiny yellowish seedlings around the center turn out differently, I won't clip off all the pigweed. Here's a confession too people; this pot had this plant for a very long time, I do not know what it is called but its quite famous in gardens here in Pakistan. Here's a photo of the same plant out in the lawn; The pot I am growing daisies in had this flower plant which was a very sore sight so I removed it and then kept watering the soil to keep it alive (basically I was keeping the micro critters alive) I know this sounds pretty unheard of but its just an OCD trait I have with soil since I create my own compost and believe the bugs should stay alive when it goes into the pot for growing something. So basically what I am saying is that I watered for a really long time yet nothing sprouted. Nothing green could be seen, not even tiny weed that I occasionally see growing even in fresh potting soil. So I took it as the soil being sterile enough. The only thing I can blame is the seed packet. Maybe I got ripped. Unless the fact that I sprinkled some black gold from my compost bin after sprinkling the daisy seeds for growing that might have cause the unwanted seeds to finally sprout, however I don't think the gases compost releases have anything to do with sprouting seeds that might have been in the soil. All seed sprouting needs is a moist environment which I had been providing it. The only thing that makes me feel hopeless is that these plants do look like pigweed. Because what I did last year was try grow flaxseeds and something grew in it and I asked here and people said it was pigweed, here's the photo from last year; So last year I took this plant and instead of wasting it, I took it to this larger pot and transplanted it there, it grew a little and so the point that I saw more of pigweeds growing around it, almost as if the flower dropped the seeds there which promoted the growth of more pigweeds but only in the close proximity of the original plant. But then I remember all the pigweeds disappeared, up till a few weeks ago when I cleared the pot and sprinkled daisy seeds into it I did not see a single pigweed plant. But then again, these are called weeds so I can't imagine how they spread over the whole pot, I didn't even till the soil and just stabbed it a bit with the trowel and sprinkled the daisy seeds from the packet. So here's what I think I can do, I am going to wait till these plants grow a bit more and wait to see if they grow pigweed like grayish long flowers. That'll be a dead giveaway that these are all indeed pigweed and I'll scrap the whole idea and start over with fresh soil.