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Growing Shasta Daisies
Their clear white blooms simply shout across the garden demanding your attention and worship. And they get both from gardeners all over the world.
How To Grow
Grow this plant in full sun or light shade.
The taller varieties will tend to get floppier in reduced sunlight than the shorter varieties so plant short varieties if you have less than full sunshine.
Give this plant a well-drained but fertile soil. It will not survive too many winters in clay (like none).
Deadhead regularly as soon as the blooms start disintegrating.
The more you prune off dead or dying flowers, the more new flowers will be produced. This is the key to keeping them blooming all summer.
How To Propagate
You can do them from division in the early spring.
Take offshoots from around the mother plant and move them to wherever you need a new bit of bright white daisies.
Often you'll find the mother plant has died out after a year or three; dig and discard it and replace with one of the new offshoots. This is quite normal as a Shasta daisy is a short-lived perennial.
They also grow easily from seed. The seed is a warm germinator. This means you don't have to put it into the refrigerator or chill it in any way. It will germinate quickly if slightly covered and the soil temperature kept at 70F/20C.
Hardiness
Most Shasta daisies are considered hardy to USDA zone 4 but I've always found them to be marginal in a cold zone 4 winter.
I've lost more of this plant than many others I've tried to grow. Maybe I'm just not talking to them properly.
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