I agree. Daisies love sun and the more the better. In fact I just moved a bunch of "Becky" to another part of my garden over the weekend. I always move plants in the summer - if I waited until fall I'd never make room for anything else. That goes against most gardening advice, and it's a little more work, but I have pretty good success as long as it's not going to be obscenely hot or dry for a long period of time. Keep your eye on the weather forecasts and try to time it just before a rainy period. When you dig your new hole and put in the plant, fill it with water before you pile more dirt on top. That helps keep the roots moist. You have to be sure to keep them well watered (that means every day) until they start to perk up. And tie them up if they start to droop. I've got so many daisies I'm willing to take the risk. But if you're not, then wait until the weather cools a bit.

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for most of us.. where is 80.. or 90.. or even 100 degrees... its time to buy bargain plants.. but NOT REALLY THE TIME TO PLANT THEM ... hold all hot summer purchased.. in full bright shade. in that rather small pot.. until fall planting time.. besides.. never transplant a plant in full bloom.. unless you want the bloom to fade within hours.. they just cant take the roots stopping pumping water.. in mid bloom.. never forget the old saying.. you really arent a gardener.. until you have 100 pots to plant in fall.. lol .. ken

Yes, you mentioned diviricata, already GG (I had just bought a calico aster) so I did indeed put one on order. I few years ago, I also managed to grow a really late aster - aster pilosum var pringlei (I think). Known as frost aster (by me) because it is SOOO late to bloom. Had forgotten about that one but it did survive the relatively dry woods so may also give that a go. I vaguely recall dealing with shasta daisies in a customers garden which didn't flower till Sepember. Am I thinking of a different chrysanthemum here (cos there are so many)?. Whites can be really tricky in an open sunny garden...but maybe with billowy grasses, late flowering umbels, achilleas and clouds of daisies, it might just work. It will certainly be very different to my usual late summer choices. I am also taking some silver-leaved cuttings (convolvulous cneorum, artemisias and caryopteris, to go with my silver leaved buddleja 'Silver Anniversary and various centaureas). I have all the 'bones' in hand - just needing fillers, so i is fairly thrilling. I am usually fed up by the end of July and have a month or so off until September, when my gardening mojo comes back. That is exactly what I do, a2zmom. I go straight from admiring the blooms to chopping the whole bunch back with no attempt to stay on top of minuscule floral heads, one at a time. Have a bidens just awaiting this exact treatment.