I'm in serious want for the yellow flowering shasta daisy. Does any one have a division to trade? I've got well rooted plants of Spiderwort Zwanenburg Blue Wood poppy, celandine poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum Knotweed 'Lance Corporal' Persicaria virginiana Meadow Cranesbill, Hardy Geranium, Geranium pratense Trumpet vine, orange flowers Brunnera macrophylla, perennial forget me not Orange day lillies (ditch lillies) Seeds (all this year's harvest) Carolina Allspice bush Athens Great Blue Lobelia Red Lobelia Cadinal flower Impatiens balsamina (mixed colors) Cleome Violet Queen Black and blue sage

I have many many Gaillardia Punchella seeds. They germinate best for me when I plant them in the fall. They grow 18 tall and can bush out about the same. They like direct sun, are drought tolerant and deer resistant. The colors are gorgeous-red center, orange ring, yellow fringe. They keep blooming over and over all summer until fall. If you'd like some I'll send some to you. You can email me from my member page.

It makes me wonder if there's a genetic component to how strong the smell is for some poeple-- the way roughly 10% of people think cilantro tastes like soap, because of their genes. There are a few mentions out there of them being stinky flowers: "Old-fashioned daisies are a must-have plant in cottage gardens and make a great addition to bouquets, at least as far as looks go. Not all, but some daisies bring a stink to the garden and bouquets that resembles either cat urine, toe jam or cow manure, depending on whose nose is sniffing. This makes sense, since flies visit the blossoms to help with pollination. Not all varieties are malodorous. Buy daisies in flower so you can test drive the scent." (https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/flowers-and-plants/14-stinky-plants-pictures) ...and several mentions of them being pollinated by flies. Which makes the smell make sense, I guess. Things that smell like poo will attract flies. Buying shasta cultivars in flower and "test-driving" the scent before bringing them home seems to make sense. I'm glad not all of them stink. I know it will be a long while before I bring home another batch!

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