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Daisies: Who grows what?
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Posted by trish_g SE Qld Aust (My Page) on Thu, Jul 20, 06 at 23:13
I have Xerochrysum bracteatum (golden paper daisy) (I suppose we all do?) It's so easy to renew annually with easy-to grow seeds from old plants, sown in March. I put them into tubes of the sort more usually used for trees and shrubs, as they are then easily looked after in the bush-house, and can go out into the garden a few month later with almost no after care, flowering happily until the next autumn.
I have Brachyscome multifida. It's easy to buy, but doesn't grow as well here as it apparently does in some other places. It lasts a few years, doesn't want to self-reproduce, and I find it a bit difficult to propagate.
I have a Senecio (lautus var montanus) - another easy daisy that is a mass of yellow flower now (July). It's a perennial,30cm high by perhaps 50 across, dense dark green foliage, needs cutting back severely when it is having its summer rest,and self-seeds effectively but moderately, so doesn't seem to want to get weedy.
Rhodanthe manglesii (pink straw daisy, from WA) flowers well in spring then I weed it out, but seedlings come up again by themselves in July, but only in my gardens, so I don't think it would ever get weedy here.
But out there in the wild there seem to be heaps of other good daisies which I don't see in gardens. Any suggestions?
Trish |
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RE: Daisies: Who grows what?
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| I like growing the craspedias and pycnosoruseses. They come in colours ranging from white to dark orange, have leaves that can be smooth or hairy, dark green to white and narrow to flat. Bottle daisies are nice too. And celmissia, brachyscombes, and paper daisies, and podolepises, olearias, rhodanthes? |
RE: Daisies: Who grows what?
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| I have been growing a yellow-flowering paper daisy, originally from seed taken from a brother-in law's place near Kingaroy a few years ago. It has self-seeded since then but in the last year, that has petered out, probably because it has been too dry. The plant I have now is on its last legs and yesterday I contemplated pulling it out altogether. I have seen similar plants growing between Kingaroy and the Bunyas. Some plants are considerably taller and weedier than others, and I have tried to encourage the bushier lower-growing plants. Possibly there are a couple of species, but I haven't tried to identify them. |
RE: Daisies: Who grows what?
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| I've had Brachyscombe growing over the years, both the leafy Segmentosa and the different Multitifida forms, but they seem short lived plants and don't grow well in the sandy soil here. I'm about 50 km s/e of Melbourne. |
RE: Daisies: Who grows what?
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| frank: most of the paper daisies are easy to grow from cutting and seed - take a bunch of cuttings and seed and start anew. justcorreas: they're really easy to propagate from cuttings - just keep a few cuttings on the go and turf out any scabby plants. I find they do very well in sandy soil, and much less well in loam and clay. |
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