Take the plant out of the pot and see the roots. If they are rotten, the plant will die. Overwatering can be one thing. Another can be a strong sunshine on the pot(usually roots do not like to be baked or boiled). Third thing- there is a fungus that causes wilt in Shasta daisies, but I have forgotten its name.

Carygardener, I think you convinced me to start my plants from seed. I paid a good price for the 3 Daisy plants I bought. Thanks Happyintexas! Good news is that at the base of the problem plants there is nice new green growth! Thanks Ellen, At the beginning of the season I sprinkled garlic powder at the base of plants to keep the rabbits away. I worked for a while. This was before the Daisy's though. I do though put some Garlic powder in the pepper spray since I know the rabbits don't like it. I have not sprayed the daisy's for a while now and they are coming back at the base. As far as ingredients the only thing I put in the solution is pepper and garlic. I read about soap and egg whites. Never liked the idea of soap and did not like the idea of spoiled spray that I imagine would be caused by the egg whites. It seems to work on all but the viola's that I have. The rabbits just love the flowers of the Viola for some reason. I spray in the evening. A2zmom, I live in Mercer County. My raised garden the soil is a dream. I spent a lot of time working on the soil. The other gardens I amended pretty well. It is a real drag digging in areas other than the gardens, especially when it has not rained in a long time. It is as hard as cement! Ken

I've got mulch coming out of my ears! Had a truckload of hardwood mulch delivered in early May which took 7 hours to haul to the backyard by wheelbarrow. I've got inches of mulch on whatever beds I could make and made watering wells around each plant. There's lots of mulch on everything that's sprouted or was a transplant in the containers. Didn't think I should mulch over newly seeded herb and small flower containers until they sprout so I'll know where to put the mulch. Putting cedar bark mulch around something like tiny alyssum seedlings is an idiot's delight...but I dutifully plopped my backside on the ground and gingerly placed mulch around every single last one of those babies where I used them for border. I spot water everything right into the well I make around each plant with mulch. Since I'm afraid of contributing to powdery mildew and don't intend to "evaporate water" I don't overhead spray water anything. Most everything I planted all over was to attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds so I can't spray chemicals or anything and want to keep down chances of foliage problems. Mind you, there are a few things of absolutely no use or interest to either of those little creatures that were JUST for me because I like the plant/flower. LOL Me hauling two 2 gallon watering cans is all the drip irrigation that's going to happen in my new beds at my father's place. He has drip hoses around the bushes in front of the house and put them on for the first time in a few years. We're "reviving" the front foundation plantings since I'm such a snit about keeping things fed and deadheaded and all the rest. The 2-3 Rhododendron in the front are HUGE and did just fine without all my "mothering" for 30 years but "someone" had to admit that the blooms were prolific this year since I fed them and last year I obsessively broke off every last single spent bloom head so they'd be ready to set new blooms for this year. Spectacular masses of lavendar blooms were a sight to behold. Since most of my plants are less that a year old with some being new transplants I figured I need to give them some TLC in the extremes of the past couple days. I should have moved some things into the shade but took on too much the first year despite warnings I'd be driving myself crazy trying to maintain all of it when it's so young. Don't know how long Dad will be in this house so bought some larger perennials for bones of beds and then wanted to get some "easy" first year blooming perennials and annuals grown from seed. Sowing couldn't be anything finicky from seed as this is first time I tried it. Dad's having some medical issues so with "life happening" I just gotta go with the flow. Ya can only plan life so far and then ya gotta go with the plan that presents itself. Wouldn't trade still having my Dad for anything even if it means gardening plans and other things have to be moved down on the priority list. Besides, it was so oppressively hot that cleaning up ugly dying bulb foliage and checking moisture levels was about all I could manage in that heat/humidity. Direct seeded more Zinnia and some Cream Marigolds wherever I didn't have to rip out landscaper's cloth and amend clay soil to get to place where roots could grow. I think all the Zinnias are going to put a big smile on my face when/if they bloom! They're just such a happy flower. I might not be so high on them if we get a bad case of powdery mildew but I have to be disciplined about keeping them properly spaced. I bought some "aqua spikes" and will use them in certain places once I get everything in its proper garden spot and a little more established. Right now I want to keep a check on seedlings and new transplants of young plants. Still at that newbie place where I'll be upset if something doesn't make it but will be so tuckered out by then I'll deal. Try to give anything that's struggling and/or almost a goner a second chance so I baby it for a while. I lost one of my Cherry Queen Cleome and I'll miss it...especially since I have to figure out something to fill the "hole" in its space right up in the mailbox bed. Had to force myself to toss little seedlings that I couldn't get out of containers with good roots intact! "Hunk o seedlings" doesn't seem to work for everything. Also didn't realize some things start to wither when you don't get them out of sowing containers if they have too much root mass even in sowing continers with 4-5" of germinating mix so had to find places for things before I had real beds fully ready. Just keep digging up more grass and expanding beds and/or plopping things into individual containers to grow on until I find them permanent home in ground. I expect things to wilt in weather extremes but don't want things to die or have branches break off if I can help them along. Every bloom counts right now. Just one year of color and variety and happy nature is all I want at this point...and a few more plants I just gotta have. :) You real gardeners are one hearty lot and I don't know how you all keep up with everything in addition to the rest of life's responsibilities.

Same here, daisies usually are done blooming by early to mid Summer. Interplant them with things that bloom later, like daylilies, garden phlox and verbena bonariensis (the tall one). Daisies will spread and next year you'll have a patch. In the out years you may have to lift and divide the root balls because not only will they spread underground, they will drop tons of seeds and I don't believe that there has ever been a daisy seed that didn't germinate in the entire history of the universe. Cheryl