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Planting daisy seeds

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  • 18-08-2015 10:41pm
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    tv3tg4
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    i am collecting some daisy seeds at the moment- when should i plant them?


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    looksee
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    Are you talking about ordinary lawn daisies? Just do what comes naturally, they produce seeds, they drop seeds, new plants grow. Just scatter them into a tray of soil or compost and leave them outside to do their own thing. It will probably be quite slow, just leave them to it.


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    tv3tg4
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    big daisy type flowers - i don't know their exact name.


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    alcea
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    Are they Shasta Daisies? If so it is recommended that you start them indoors in Spring (by almanac.com), if you are planting them directly into the ground it may delay flowering.


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    looksee
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    Oh those are one of my favourite wild flowers - ox-eye daisies they are called, we used call them moon pennies or moon daisies when I was a child. The treatment is much the same as I suggested above, just scatter them on some compost and keep it moist, they will sprout fairly quickly but will take a season to flower. The are easy!


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    looksee
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    Shasta daisies are very close relatives of ox-eye daisies, a kind of up-market version I think :D I would not like to state definitively whether they were one or the other.


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    alcea
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    Either way they would look fabulous in a flower bed. I am just starting to plan my flower beds, I think this is another one I will be including. Getting great ideas from this forum.


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