Attractive grey foliage and beautiful white daisy flowers produced for month after month make this little plant a real charmer. It’s small, just 30 centimetres high and wide, so it must be placed at the edge of the garden or among other low growing plants so it’s not smothered. It’s a no-fuss plant, requiring little attention apart from a sunny site and good drainage and able to tolerate dry conditions.

Leucanthemum ‘Sparkles’ is one of those plants which looks good in all sorts of situations. It’s a fun plant to combine with other small plants which flower profusely over an extended period, such as Brachyscome ‘Break O’Day’, Brachyscome ‘Strawberry Mousse’, Salvia ‘Aztec Blue’, Helipterum ‘Paper Cascade’, Veronica ‘Oxford Blue’ and Bacopa varieties ‘Blue Showers’, ‘Blizzard’ and ‘Lady Caroline’. A group of some or all of these plants can make a delightful ground covering group in a sunny border or on a bank. Because Leucanthemum ‘Sparkles’ is so compact it can also be grown successfully as an edging plant beside a path. Another idea is to use a group of it as a foreground to English lavender varieties or larger growing daisy flowered plants such as the shasta daisy ‘Highland Dream’ or the white flowered, compact, bushy Marguerite daisy ‘Sugar Crystals’.