Crazy Dasies

Daisy Dreams

How to pick a star performing daisy for your School  garden. School gardens should be relaxed, free flowering and fun; they can. and with plants that bees love; there are no rules, just plant what you love to create a garden that appeals to you.

A School garden just wouldn't be the same without patches of great big daisies blooming right throughout the season and into autumn. Did you know that daisies love sunshine? You shouldn't plant them in the shade – they hate it. To smile and perform, they really require warm sunshine.

Daisies love to be dry. Most people over water them at the beginning of the season, so try to avoid doing this. Go on, have a crazy summer – grow some daisies! This is also why they are great in school garden as they will not need much watering during the school holiday.

Did you know  The word 'daisy' comes from the Old English dæges-eage, meaning 'day's eye. It is easy to see why. Many open up their petals in the sun and close at night.
Here are the best for your garden?

Patio Osteospermum

The wonderful voltage yellow patio osteospermums, are great performers in a sunny position and will flower through till late autumn. These will bring instant cheer to your pots and hanging baskets. Beautiful under planted with a dark purple surfinia.  The perfect plant for a cottage garden container

Hardy Osteospermum compactum

Suppress your weeds with a densely planted carpet of vibrant African Daisies. Osteospermum compactum is one of the easiest ground cover plants you can grow and it's hardy too, so you can enjoy it year after year. Once established this versatile, resilient perennial is happy in hot, dry, neglected conditions, and it is particularly useful for tricky coastal sites. Famed for their long flowering period, Osteospermums bloom from June right through to October.

Hardy Osteospermumum Lady Leitrim
Sprawling, dense clumps of aromatic, evergreen foliage topped with lovely daises which open white and become flushed with pink as they age. The petals have eye-catching, metallic, lilac-coloured backs. Flowers right through till autumn .

Leucanthemum White mountain ( Shatsa Daisy)
Destined to be the workhorse of your cutting garden, white mountainis a super-floriferous, long-blooming Shasta Daisy with flowers A fully blooming plant is a breathtaking sight, and the flowers last 2 weeks or more in the vase, assuring you of months of beautiful indoor arrangements!

Gazania sunbathers

A real statement pot is terracotta pot filled with just Gazania Sunbathers.  Many Daisies close at night but the "Sunbathers" won't close in low light,
The Gazania Sunbathers Totonaca with their vivid dark red-orange blooms with yellow tips on a nicely mounded are a luxurious addition to your summer border. This new range of cutting-raised Gazaniace produce large wide flowers that open like parasol on a sunny beach and stay opened in all weathers. This sun loving plant is easy to grow and is perfect match to beds, borders and window boxes. These plants with their vibrant colour are attractive to bees and butterflies regardless of weather. Don't forget these love full sun and free draining soil.  With their large wide blooms that open like parasol on a sunny beach this is a luxurious addition to your summer border.

Bidens: Invite the bees to your garden with Bidens . One of their favourite flowers and no maintenance at all. Every basket pot or border should have a Biden in it.