Re: shasta daisies

In a message dated 6/2/02 1:53:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mtalt@hort.net 
writes:

<< Was I dreaming?  Does anyone do this?  Mine tend to flop horribly
 once they start blooming and I'd be quite happy to figure a way to
 stop this without having to stake the bloody things. >>

They flop here too and shortening them has not worked for me. You have to 
search out and find a cultivar that does not exceed 12/14 inches.  I have one 
and I have no tag for it.  I don't remember what I grew.  I think you will 
have to find seed for a very short variety or search around the catalogs for 
a named one that does not grow tall.

The plant named Becky is widely advertised, is it a shorter one?  Once I had 
a semi-double that was also around 12/14 inches and I have lost that.  I 
think it came from Bluestone.  

Since we have the wild oxeye daisy growing here in the fields and yikes, even 
invading the gardens we no longer care about the shastas.  A field daisy 
planted in your garden will be less heavy in stem and smaller in flower but 
will last forever and if not dead headed seed itself more than one would 
want.  Still, the oxeye daisy left here and there in the gardens is a sort of 
lesser shasta ( hybrid)  and requires absolutely no care whatsoever.  It is 
more manageable left in dry and poor soil.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 

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