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| This is my first year of having any daisies in my garden and I have 6 of these Banana Cream! I planted them last September so this is their first summer.
They bloomed all about the same time starting in late June or so and the blooms lasted about 3 to maybe 4 weeks. However these same first flowers have deteriorated more or less at the same time with just a few flower buds in behind. I tried to selectively deadhead the spent flowers but as I said they were mostly 'spent' at the same time so now I have 5 healthy green plants with no flowers and just a hint of maybe more to come. Does that make sense ie maybe no flowers in most of August? |
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| That sounds right. Shasta daisies bloom in June-July and by now they are spent, with maybe an occasional flower here or there, and are done blooming for the year. Karen |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 11 at 8:40
| you sound like somewhat of a newbie ... your first mistake.. was planting 6 of one thing... you have now learned that any given plant.. has a pretty short bloom season ... my best advice.. no more than 3 of anything ... and 4 groups ... at least one for each season ... plus some bulbs ... spring = bulbs june not much blooms in august... but sedum comes to mind ... fall.. your standard mums ... and autumn clematis ... june would be most of your typical annuals ... and you have july all set ... more hardcore deadheading might have extended the daisy bloom ... as you made it sound like you were almost afraid to do it too vigorously ... but they still peak for the most part .. leaving you a lot of summer ans fall with nothing else ... good luck ken |
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| I appreciate the feedback Ken but you are a bit quick to the gun in your assumptions about me re my experience and the composition of garden in question. This garden having the 6 compact Banana Cream Daisies also has Amsonia Blue Ice and Amsonia Arkansas Star as well as Russian Stonecrop. I thought I had done my research last fall as most sites advertise this Daisy as blooming from early to late summer. In my books August is part of the summer. But now that I know (for my area at least) that it is basically a July bloomer I will replaced two of these plants with a perennial August bloomer...maybe something in red and of similar height. |
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| August in Nothern Europe is the most rich in flowers of them all. There are more plants blooming now, then June and July together. If you want shasta daisies in August try Manhattan. It blooms here from the end of July practically to the frost. It is up to 1,5 m tall, but selfsupporting and a lot of side branches. There are also two doubles: Stina and Fiona Coghill which are late blooming. |
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- Posted by deanna_in_nh 5a/4b (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 11 at 22:06
| I'm in NH and you would think mine would bloom later than most, and later than Manhattan, but my Shastas are also spent now. They were pretty much a July flower this year. I don't know if our heat wave this July contributed to a shorter bloom season for the other Shastas because I haven't been gardening long enough to know. The Banana Creams actually have a very few blooms left and thus have outlasted the traditional Shasta daisies, but not by much. |
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| deanna, your description fits mine except my Beckys are outlasting my Banana Creams (which are completely spent). You have a good point about the heat being a factor except I thought it might have been offset by the abnormally wet and cool spring we had. I was also thinking that it may be related to the age of my plants ie all are in their first full summer (having been planted last September). |
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| I would like to add, that the runners on Leucanthemum 'Manhattan' are very short , so it actually looks like a clumper. Unlike Becky, which runs madly. |
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| Just like Banana Cream is a compact clumper. Because of this one can actually use BC as a border plant if one desires...unlike for Becky which can easily soar to well over 4 feet! |
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- Posted by totallyconfused 6b/7 MD (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 11 at 6:11
| "I thought I had done my research last fall as most sites advertise this Daisy as blooming from early to late summer." I was given similar misinformation about "Snowcap" by a local nursery. I was told it would rebloom with deadheading and provide flowers throughout the summer. In reality, it finishes blooming by about the middle of July, has little or no rebloom, and rots terribly in my clay soil. I understand your frustration with Banana Cream. Totally Confused |
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- Posted by deanna_in_nh 5a/4b (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 11 at 17:05
| rouge21, my BC's are also new to the garden. Got it from the nursery last year, so this is their first year for me. My comment regarding heat comes from talking to a friend from Georgia who now summers on the Maine coast. She said she was amazed at how much longer blooms last on plants here, and she was comparing plants grown both in Georgia and Maine, not different varieties/species. She attributed it to the Georgia heat which stresses the blooms and shortens bloom time. I had never thought of it, but it sure does make sense. Heat stresses the plants and I could easily imagine it having a negative effect on delicate blooms. It will be something I'll be noting during future summers to see what happens in my garden. |
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| UPDATE: Now the second full growing season for this daisy and its poor performance was repeated ie - this will be the final week of flowering and it seems again that there is no re-blooming even with conscientious aggressive dead heading In my opinion this is a much over rated daisy. |
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