Meet This Out-Of-Hand Daisies
Meeting #6
My friend Paula Fleming shared the story of her daisies in the photo above.
I planted them in the front yard of our old house. Eventually, they got out of hand, so I divided them and gave some to my friend Dianne. Then they got out of hand for her, and she divided and brought them over here. I think only maybe 3 plants. Actually, it was the last time she came here before she died. So they are special in several ways. She said they were Shasta daisies, but I don’t know.
The app Picture This identified the flowers in Paula’s photo as Shasta daisies.
Daisies are perennials that belong to the aster (star) family. They are composite flowers formed by a ring of petals and a center composed of hundreds of tiny flowers.
When we see a bee on a daisy, they are after the nectar and pollen inside these little flowers.
The next time you see a bottle of honey, think of how many times a bee had to visit a daisy or other flowers for a beekeeper to fill that bottle.
The name daisy refers to:
- The Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare). Native to Europe, it was…
