Last year I ordered myself a packet of the Organic Gardening Catalogue’s wild edible plant mix. It says it contains:
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One gardeners Daisy is another gardeners weed. This Ox- Eye daisy is made up from numerous white ray flowers surrounding a bright yellow disk flower or florets the outer white petals are common in many daisies. Bellis perennis is the common daisy growing in meadows and many lawns. Lots of children will be familiar with the Daisy chains made by linking flowers together.
More exotic daisy plants can be discovered in this comprehensive guide.
Daisies are from the Asteraceae or Compositae family that has over 20,000 species from over 1500 genera that includes the Asters, Senicio and Sunflowers.
Daisies are a large family of flowering plants called Compositae or Astereacea that includes the Dandelion, and the better garden flowers of Rudbeckia, Gaillardia, Aster, Echinacea, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia and Osteospermum amongst other species . Perhaps one of the favourite garden flowers in the family is the Sunflower.
This Ox-eye Daisy or Chrysanthemum leucanthemum is a large Daisy with flowering stems up to three feet high. It is free flowering and self seeds or can be split in Autumn. The flowers, from June to September are good for cutting. Also known as a Marguerite.
Shasta Daisy ‘Silver Princess’, and Mesembryanthemum are colourful daisy flowers from the southern hemisphere that are doing particularly well over here.
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Last year I ordered myself a packet of the Organic Gardening Catalogue’s wild edible plant mix. It says it contains:
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Members of the Buttercup family are called Ranunculaceae. To grow the plants successfully beware the seeds tend to have a short period of viability and need planting straight away.
Marguerites are a small genus of plants ‘Argyranthemum’. They are part of the wider daisy family and look very similar to Chrysanthemums.
What plants evoke memories of your childhood. For me there are some old favourites that you can try again now in your natural garden. They are often available in a better form as seed and selection has improved over the years.
If you like daisy flowers then you will love Anthemis. A couple of varieties, to grow, are shown above and detailed below.
One of the smaller varieties of Campanula should ring a bell for rockery or alpine gardeners.
Native daisies are are normally white petaled with yellow florets/capitulum and come from one of the following families.