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Posted by Amelie Brisbane (My Page) on Sun, Jul 6, 03 at 8:31
I usually have a few (or sometimes a lot) marguerite daisies in my garden.
Over the past couple of years I've removed most of them because they were getting quite straggly and not performing very well.
Is it too late to plant some now? When would you advise trimming them and by how much? In the past whenever I've trimmed daisies they seem to either not grow back very well, not flower, or die. |
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RE: Marguerite daisies
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| Mine seem to get a bit feral, but I usually prune them when flowering slows down, quite hard - about half the bush. Perhaps you should trim them more often, sometimes I have found if I cut an old bush back too hard (into very old wood) they do die, but they are also very easy to grow from cuttings. So while you are trimming, put a few of the prunings in a pot! |
RE: Marguerite daisies
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| Thanks greenwoods - I'm not a great pruner, but when my daisies get all those dead leaves hanging off the lower branches, I do hack them off (probably too far). This has most likely been where I've gone wrong. |
RE: Marguerite daisies
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| I have found in the past that my daisy bushes have limited life, and that cutting back too hard will shorten this life considerably. I now prune my daisies immediately after flowering with hedge trimmers. A light "haircut" that just removes the dead flowers keeps the plants a good rounded shape and the leaves always look healthy. If you regard them as replaceable and take cuttings regularly (they grow so easily from cuttings), you will have new plants to replace those which die. |
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