Shasta Daisies (again!)

I'm sure most of you are sick to death of hearing about my shasta
daisies (or lack of) by now.  However, they have become an obsession
with me and I am sure that if, and when, they bloom, I will be the
envy of everyone on this list because by that time yours will have all
departed to that great garden in the sky and mine will be a blaze of
white amidst the orange and purple.  Did I mention that my three
monarda are blooming?  I had been waiting with great anxiety for some
bright red, but guess what?  Two of them are violet and one is pink. 
Actually, they're pretty gorgeous ;  it's just that they look
absolutely nauseous next to the purple and orange.  
   Back to the daisies.  I was passing the tv set a couple of days ago
and the H&G channel was on.  As I breezed by I heard the host mention
"shasta daisies".  Needless to say I came to a screeching halt.  The
image was of this magnificent clump of shasta daisies that was covered
in flowers.  He was explaining that the munificence of this plants
flowers was because he had pinched them back many times.  Earlier, I
had screamed, moved, fed, and cursed mine but I never pinched them..(I
didn't want to get too physical with these little stinkers).  Anyway,
my question is,Why didn't someone tell me to pinch them?  Do you all
pinch back your daisies or is the man on the tv show a sadistic bully?
   The count now is as follows: 1 white bud, 3 big nubbins, and the
possibility of several more nubbins. At the rate they are going, I
should have a riot of blooms about the time of the first snowfall.
Jeanne




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