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

big leaves, no flowers is a classic sign of one of two things: not enough sun ... or the wrong fertilizer formula ... if you did not over fertilize them with too much nitro [which encourages vegetative green growth] ... then all you are left with is too little sun ... besides.. i guess you already answered that in the last sentence ... i would move them in fall .... unless you just dont care what they look like.. move them now.. though i would expect sunburn/scorch and wilt .. though you could probably hack them back rather severely .... and they PROBABLY will resprout and take off... ken

Japanese beetles are eating alot of my plants lately. We have plum trees and they are all over it and help themselves to all the plants in our yard. I have been drowning them in a cup with water and dishsoap but it's impossible to get them all. Hope this helps.

mandorsk - many perennials, including Shasta daisies, won't bloom the first year from seed. I grew them via winter sowing last year and they're blooming this year for the first time. Same with ladybells, lobelia, columbine, blackberry lily, beardtongue, globeflower, carnations and blanket flower. All were grown from seed via winter sowing last year, grew into healthy plants that went dormant in the fall, came up again this year and bloomed.