Plant in a location that receives full sun to light shade along the coast or light shade in warmer inland locations. Fairly drought tolerant but looks more robust with occasional irrigation. It is cold hardy to at least 10 F and tolerates coastal conditions. When plants get lanky, cut back to 1 to 2 inches of stem in late fall. As noted in Carol Bornstein, Dave Fross and Bart O'Brien's i>California Native Plants for the Garden "Seaside daisy performs best in coastal gardens and works well in mixed borders, meadows, or containers. In richer soils it looks better and blooms more profusely than it will in sandy or rocky soils. In inland gardens plants in full sun flower spectacularly throughout spring but often burn to a crisp during summer … individual seaside daisy plants have a useful garden life span of two to seven years."

Erigeron glaucus is native along coastal bluffs, dunes and beaches below 500 feet in the coast shrub community from the Channel Islands and mainland Santa Barbara County north to Oregon. The name for the genus comes from the Greek words 'eri' meaning early or perhaps 'erio' meaning wooly and 'geron' meaning "old man" which alludes to the bristly or wooly seed heads. The specific epithet is the Latin word meaning "bluish-green", "bluish-gray" or pale green in reference to the color of the leaves.

The 'Sea Breeze' cultivar was selected by Frederick Yates from a seed bed of unidentified and unpatented hybrids of Erigeron glaucus in a cultivated area of Congleton, Cheshire, England in 1992 and it received US Plant Patent PP12,076 on September 4, 2001, a patent that has since expired. We grew and sold it at our nursery from 2005 until we closed the nursery in 2025. We also grew the other Seaside Daisy cultivars Erigeron glaucus 'Bountiful' and Erigeron glaucus 'Cape Sebastian', as well had the Erigeron glaucus hybrid Erigeron 'WR'. 

The information displayed on this page about Erigeron glaucus 'Sea Breeze' is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.