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Hi-- As a child in Germany, I loved all those tiny, simple white daisies that grew in lawns everywhere. I have not seen a single one here in the Northeast US, but would love to plant some in our lawn. When I look for seeds, they all seem to be a much showier, more colorful, and puffier kind of flower. Only Annie's Annuals had a picture that resembles what I remember, but they are not available. Any ideas? Also, as they are probably considered a weed in places that have an abundance of them, would I be importing a risky non-native plant if I did find seeds?
I have daisies growing in my lawn, they get cut down whenever I mow, but always seem to be back and blooming the next time I go out. I will try to get some pictures and post them. If they are what you are looking for, I will mow around them and leave some to go to seed.
I tried to grow some, remember making daisy chains as a child with them, but none survived our bitter winters. I think the seed was called English Daisy when I got them.
I had completely forgotten about those lawn daisies ! We had them in our lawn too, when we were kids. My sisters used to string them into necklaces and wear them to church.
Wish I could send you some, they may well be out of bounds where you are as they really are a nasty weed but lovely looking, the problem is that where they are growing in the lawn, the grass wont grow as the Daisies are the stronger plant and they spread like wild fire, before you know it you have a white lawn and no grass, they grow so flat on the soil that the mower cant kill them off, it only cuts the flowers off and the heart plants just send out more flowers for the kids to make their Daisey Chains to wear around their necks or wrists, if you do get hold of them, be sure that where you plant one of those Daisies, the following year you will have a square foot of them and no grass beside this. We British Gardeners spend a lifetime trying to rid our lawns of this weed for the rest of our lives IF we are unfortunate to have it growing, I used to go on my hands and knees with a screwdriver to remove the roots and plant till my husband said he quite liked to see the daisies growing in the lawn, next year he regretted this statement and after 20 odd years we are still trying to control it, we will never get rid of it and when we get a patch cleared, we have to reseed the area right away, maybe this is why you cant get hold of it, it is hardy enough to withstand freeze and drought so it cant be the growing conditions that prevent you getting hold of it, it is just the spread and damage it does that maybe some states won't allow it, but maybe there is no law against it, I dont know for sure, but as lovely as it looks beware. good luck. WeeNel.
The dasies in our garden don't take over the garden. They just get chopped from the lawn mower. They don't over take anything.
Are these the types of daisy you were on about?
I did find lots of name variations (daisy, bellis perennis, common daisy, eye of the day and bruiswort)
Dandelions are beneficial to soil by bringing nutrients from deep below to the surface, but let's face it, they're ugly, especially the seed heads. Chamomile daisies are charming, and when the plant is mowed, it smells divine.
Dandelions will eventually take over unless they are removed. I actually have a dendelion in a plant pot by it's self...it's a long story but I bought a plant and in the corner were these two tiny leaves which looked like the bigger plant...I planted the two leaves in a pot as I was curious. As it's grown it looks more and more like a dandelion; I actually want to see if it is one first.
dipsy, you are the only person I know who is nurturing a dandelion in a pot! Well, you CAN put the young leaves in a salad. They're a little bitter, like escarole.
I didn't mean to winterrobin; as I said I bought a tiny plant and it had a tiny set of second leaves so I planted it to see what it was...It's not gotten a flower yet, but the leaves do look like a dandelion; it's not doing too well outside actually. Haha.
