English Daisy
By fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29820)
Momence, Illinois
May 2, 2016 7:35am CST
Oh so beautiful. As some of you know I went to the huge garden center just north of my town at the end of last week. It's rainy and muddy out there so we haven't planted all the flowers and vegetables we bought. But I wanted to share some of the flowers that we bought.
This is a flower I have never seen before and when I saw it in the cart it went. This is an English Daisy and we bought the Bellissima Mix, and it has the color flower shown and also a more pink one and looks like a red one although those haven't bloomed yet. I love this flower and hope that it does well and spreads.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
2 May 16
That is a lovely flower with delicate pink tips.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
2 May 16
Yes I had to have it, it's a new flower for us so I'm hoping it grows well.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
2 May 16
This looks like a rather larger flower than the wild daisy (Bellis perennis) and some might say it is prettier, perhaps. Certainly it's more suitable for a flower bed than the white ones which people who pride their lawns are inclined to curse.
Many people have a special place in their hearts for the daisy. The latin name, 'Bellis', means 'beautiful' (perennis means, literally, 'through the year' because it can be found flowering in almost every month of the year). The English name simply means 'day's eye' from its habit of opening when the sun is up and closing at night.
Many children may remember making daisy chains. You pick flowers with fairly long stems, pinch a hole through the stalk with your thumbnail and thread another daisy through the hole (and so on and so on!). We also used to find out whether the girl or boy of our dreams loved us or not by picking off the petals one by one and reciting "She loves me. She loves me not." When the last petal was plucked, you knew whether or not you had a chance with that particular person.
Of course, you wouldn't play these games with your flowers but when they grow by the thousand in lawns and meadows, there's no harm in it!
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
It's actually fairly small. And the others on the same plant that are blooming now are smaller than the one I pictured. I remember the she love me she loves me not game as well. So is this growing in England and is it considered a wild flower there?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 May 16
@fishtiger58 There are wild daisies which are a lot smaller and shorter than this. They have white petals (very rarely tipped with pink) and grow in abundance in lawns and meadows. There are also cultivated varieties which one sees in garden centres and I think that yours is one of these. I believe that they are the same species but one is small and wild and (more or less) a weed and the other has been bred to have larger and more colourful flowers.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
@owlwings Oh I see, we have many wildflowers here as well, not sure we have any daisy like wildflowers though.
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
4 May 16
@fishtiger58 It would be an experiment for sure. I think the food coloring can be seen in the stem and will turn the white red.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
5 May 16
@mommaj hmmmm I might have to give that a go lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
Hmmm now I have never heard of doing that, do you do that, or are you just making this up lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
2 May 16
I do too, it's a new flower for us so we shall see.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
3 May 16
that's a lovely photo.... daisies are cute aren't they.... but ive not heard of people planting them on purpose... well, in england anyway....
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
4 May 16
@fishtiger58 A bit of both I think.... i'm not much of a gardener.... but the daisy grows wild...usually with grass... it's a very hardy little flower..., but i've had a closer look and the daisies i'm thinking about, and they are all white , and only a small number have pink on the petals ... so yours may be a different variety... as @owlings suggests in her comment below....
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
5 May 16
@sueznewz2 I see, it would be pretty to see a whole field of these growing though.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
Really why? Are they an invasive plant or more of a wild growing flower?
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 May 16
@fishtiger58 I've never seen a daisy like that, tipped like that. It's beautiful.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
5 May 16
@just4him I am hoping they do well in the garden, we shall see.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
Thanks Valerie I think so too.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
3 May 16
English daisies grow well here where I live. They make good ground cover, and rock garden plant. They aren't hard to grow at all especially once they get going.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
6 May 16
@fishtiger58 Yes they do. They will have babies next to the main plant. Once you get quite a few, you can divide them and plant them a couple of inches from the main plant.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
Do they spread fairly well? I am hoping that they do.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 May 16
@PrarieStyle Awesome, I know my hubby will move them around to different parts of the garden. The more the merrier
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
4 May 16
looks lovely - hope your garden looks great when everything you plant grows through
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
5 May 16
I hope so too, the spring flowers are coming to an end, so I'm anxious to get all my new flowers in the ground.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
25 May 16
Thanks so much, they were a new flower to me so I had to have them.
@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
19 Jul 16
A daisy was the first flower my sister taught me how to draw.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
23 Jul 16
@fishtiger58 - I can't draw. I'm not an artist. My late sister was an artist. She's the first person who showed me how beautiful watercolors can be. My sister insisted that it wasn't that hard and showed me how to do it. Can't draw hardly anything else. But thanks to big sis, I can definitely draw a daisy!
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Jul 16
@cmoneyspinner Well it's more than I can draw lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Jul 16
Oh you draw, now I will have to go see if you have posted some, I can't draw a straight line with a ruler lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
As soon as I saw it I had to have it. Love getting flowers I have never had before.
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@LadyDuck (471533)
• Switzerland
2 May 16
@fishtiger58 I will plant again in another location.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
@LadyDuck I sure hope these spread, good luck with yours
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
2 May 16
I haven't planted these yet but I'm hoping they do well. Time will tell.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
yes, this is sooo captiviating, i also wish to have this one lovely flower
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
13 Jun 16
Thanks so much it's very pretty.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
It's certainly a new one for me. I am hoping it does well in my garden.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
2 May 16
'tis a beaut indeed! 'course, i'm a sucker daisies'f any kind - they're actually my favorite flower. i hope't does well't'cher place. ya know, so'n a few years i can sneak'p to yer neck'f the woods 'n pilfer me some? ;) rofl
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
Sounds like a plan, the pilfering part lol. I love daisies too
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
2 May 16
I will look for it when our greenhouse starts to sell flowers, it is beautiful
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
I hope you can find one, it's the first time for me. That huge garden center we go to always has flowers I have never seen before and I always have to get several different ones.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
4 May 16
As soon as I saw it I had to have it. I love the coloring of this, others on the same plant are more reddish in color.
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