This groundcover can look a bit weedy, but it is such a tough no-nonsense plant with an abundance of pretty yellow flowers that it definitely deserves a place in the garden. It grows and flowers best in full sun, is happy in most soil types, from clay to sand, and loves both well-drained and marshy areas. In the garden, it looks great in informal plantings planted along the edges of paths, in rockeries or between pebbles and gravel. In winter (June to August) it flowers with the aloes and in summer it is valuable for planting in the empty pockets left by the spring annuals. Arctotis arctotoides makes a pretty combination in summer mixed with the blue Cape-forget me-not (Anchusa capensis). The plants grow very fast, spreading about 60 cm within 3 months and tend to get untidy after 3-4 years, when it is best to replace them.

New plants are easy to propagate from cuttings or seed. The stems root as they creep along the soil making it easy to divide the plants by removing rooted parts of the stem. Cuttings of the growing tips of the stems root easily at any time of the year. Seedlings often germinate around the mother plants, but the seeds can be collected and sown in seed trays in spring, summer or autumn, from where they are pricked out when big enough to handle and grown in pots before being planted into the garden.