Re: Shasta Daisies (again!)

I have never pinched back my shasta daisies and they grow and grow and I
give them away and divide them and give them away, and I hate to brag, but
I can't kill these guys.  I really don't know what problem you are having.
But I have never pinched them.

At 08:38 AM 7/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>
>==
>Jeanne
>_________________________________________________________
>DO YOU YAHOO!?
>Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
>message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index