I would be careful with just pulling the stems up. I know I have personally yanked up some of the rosettes by doing so. I agree that you can cut them back any time you want unless it is getting near the bloom time. Any cuttings you take during the growing season root with no trouble. All the sedums I have were obtained by taking cuttings of some in various friends' gardens. I generally leave about an inch or so of the old stems because I generally use hedge clippers to clip mine back. The stem portions left generally fall off when the plants start spring growth.

hey searching for buds.. is common to any plant you wish to cut back ... just a simple lesson for a newbie ... there is less fear.. if you can see what you are doing ... past that.. it was just a curiosity as to what the plant is.. because it looks nothing like the shasta daisy's my parents grew in the 60's and 70's .. nor me.. in the 80's and 90's .. that is not to say they havent come up with new versions.. but it is key to learning .. to actually know what plant you have ... link below to my recollection of a shasta daisy .... if you google the term .. that flower is a vast majority of the pix offered.. but there are others ... including some doubles ... google comes up with no pix on Margarita Darling - Darling Shasta Daisy .. and Darling is a dwarf.. which is nothing like yours ... whats that all about. ... at this point its simply a mystery .. but it is still daisy.. and the snipping rules hold ... somewhere back down the line.. your plant started as a seed ... and it is not out of the ordinary.. that you might have some weird mutant.. no matter what the tag says ... enjoy it ... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link

I am well aware of how aggressive this clematis is. I made the mistake of listening to a suggestion that I use it as groundcover in a certain situation. I changed my mind about five minutes later, but have been digging out (with a spade, not a trowel) the seedlings ever since. I think this obelisk will be a one-season thing. I am wary of creating too many fussy plantings that need surgical precision to control lest they become landmines. What if I wanted to go away some September? Or the unsuspecting next owner didn't know how important it was to remove every blossom before it went to seed?

My problem with growing multiple different trees in 1 pot is.... whichever tree is the most vigorous will take over with a bigger root system, taking more nutrients and space in the soil. I had a "cocktail citrus tree" Meyer lemon and Limequat both in the same container. They did poorly compared to my single tree pots.... and by the time I wanted to seperate the trees, it was way too late, roots were tangled up with eachother and massive damage was done. Long story short, they both died. Let me know how the project turns out Moonlight but It's not one that excites me. There's a reason why all the experts and farmers grow trees with spacing requirements.... They know the best way to grow trees. I'm not saying they can't be grown together... just saying they'll grow less compared to separate pots.