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Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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Posted by billy_gardener Ohio (My Page) on Tue, Sep 15, 09 at 22:03
| I have two different varieties of shasta daisies...both started from Burpee seed three years ago. One variety is Silver Princess and I don't recall the other. Both varieties bloom profusely. I dead head religiously back to the first new flower bud, but both varieties fail to yield a second round of flowers...plenty of buds, but they never open. Is this common among shastas? Are there varieties available that are more likely to bloom all summer long with dead heading, as all varieties claim to do?? I live in NE ohio, and my plants still have good looking vegetation, but no flowers after the first wave. |
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RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| I have Becky and grew some wild ones, deadheaded them all when blooms were spent. Not one ever rebloomed although there were a few slower ones, who needs that? My crazy daisies, however, are reblooming after deadheading, but not as profusely as the first flush. This was their first year to bloom, and I see by my photo files, many were fully opened by June 16. Becky followed a little later, can't remember exactly. |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| I also have Becky. She blooms for me from mid-July to mid-Aug. I deadhead but never had re-bloomes either. Many plants don't re-bloom in zone 5a. |
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- Posted by phyl345 chicagoland z5 (My Page) on
Wed, Sep 16, 09 at 12:09
| gosh, i have lots of beckys that are reblooming ~ they are 5yrs. old, but even the first year i still had blooms in october; which has been true every year ~ hmmm ~ maybe i am just lucky? phyl |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| Did you cut them back and are you sure they are Becky? Where did you get them? I'd be extremely happy if my Becky rebloomed like yours. I was thinking of trying another kind but it's not top on my priority list right now. They were nice enough while they lasted. |
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| yup, i'm sure! ~ i bought them at milaeger's up in racine, wisconsin ~ i cut them back just as soon as they start to look tired ~ i go down the stem until i can see where there is a side shoot; then make my cut at that point ~ actually, i have way, way more (after 5 yrs.) than my yard can hold; so if anybody lives near me, (libertyville) come on over & you can have all you want! |
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| phyl345, thank you, and I will try what you did. Too late now. I plan to divide my Becky plants next spring, maybe fill in the hole, and not sure what I'll do with the extra. Maybe I want to try something else there and move all the Becky or give some away. There might be takers for any Shastas on freecycle, but ordinary daisies, hard to get people who want those. I happen to like the ones that bloom so long in the spring, asked for and got some. Not the marguerites or ox eye, but whatever these are, they are fairly common around here, too. I love daisies but also like variety. |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| They typically don't rebloom. You can prune the stems back 2-3" from the ground and "may" get a smaller rebloom. |
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- Posted by phyl345 chicagoland z5 (My Page) on
Thu, Sep 17, 09 at 21:41
| hmmmm ~~~ read my post from yesterday ~~~ my beckys will still be blooming for another month ~~ certainly not like they were a month ago ~~ but still ~~~~ btw ~~ i don't cut them all the way down as you described; i just cut down to the next emerging offshoot (which i find easy to identify) phyl p.s. want some??? i've got soooooo many ~ |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| As mentioned they typically don't rebloom. Your lucky that you are getting the reblooms. I prune them the way you mention and sometimes down lower and occasionally get a rebloom. Talk to any nursery and they would not classify any shasta daisy as a rebloomer. |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| billy gardener, I had the exact same thing happen to my Becky's this year. They bloomed great the first flush, then they started their sporadic blooming for the remainder of the season(which is what my Becky's always do - they're the best shastas in this area) HOWEVER - the blooms never opened, they turned brown and died. I cut them all back and hoped they'd try again, but they haven't. I'm hoping it's not a disease in my garden, but just a result of an unusually cool and wet summer for my area. Has your weather been that way this year? I'm hoping maybe that's it, if it's not - I'm shovel pruning them, if they do it again next year. |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| o.k. i will admit this is unusual; however, look at the pictures of my beckys from this morning ~~ hope you are able to see the date on the sunday tribune (?) ~~~ soooo, if you didn't believe my earlier posts ~~ yaknow what they say about a picture being worth a 1,000 words ~~ yes, virginia, there really *is* a reblooming shasta daisy! (grin) phyl, who is loving this beautiful nov. weather ~~ p.s. my offer is still open if anyone lives in my area & would like some *reblooming* shasta daisies 
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RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| Do becky daisies spread? i have a area that would look so great if they filled in! |
RE: Shasta Daisies not reblooming
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| YES! Come to our next swap, and I'll offload a patch to you. |
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