Shasta Daisies





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
05/29/98 08:44 AM


<< Now I just wish I found Shasta daisies as easy to grow as others do.
They
 frequently don't live more than a season for me, altlhough I have one that
has
 returned from last year about to bloom.  But then this was a very mild
winter
 in the Ohio Valley. >>
Bill,
I live in Louisville, KY, also in the Ohio Valley.  I grew my first Shasta
daisies from a $.10 packet of seeds I bought at a local grocery.  Those
things have lasted for years now.  I also have a variety called 'Becky'
that is supposed to do well in the humidity and heat that we have in the
summer.  This is its first year, so I can't comment on whether it will come
back, but it is short stemmed with large flowers.  It's blooming now.  I
have another, a double, that I also bought this year with a German name.
I'll have to look it up.

Either way, I divide mine every year even though it's probably best to
divide them every two years.  I find that the clumps grow too big over the
summer and I like them well enough to spread them around the yard.  One
thing I should tell you is that I have them in full sun and fertilize in
the spring with a slow-release formula and then once again with a
water-soluble fertilizer when they first start to bloom.  I deadhead as
often as I can.  I mulch heavily with shredded bark.  They grow in amended
clay soil (packaged soil, horse manure, composted leaves, vermiculite).

Hope some of this helps you.

Val in KY
zone 6a


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