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Jul 23, 2013 4:54 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
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Thanks for the links, virginiarose.

I picked up an 'Angel Daisy' at Summerwinds last week (when I went there to take advantage of their 20% off rose sale). I only got one plant, and found a spot for it in my Moon Garden. We'll see how it does; if I like it, I may get more. (Of course, if I like it, I'll find that I can't get more! Lol!)

One thing that annoys me, though, is that in the past I have had bad luck buying Shasta daisies online. In two successive years, I have tried to buy replacement plants for my double Shasta daisy 'Ice Star'. (I had a wonderful huge clump by some rocks in the Moon Garden, and then something changed. Gophers? A change in irrigation? I can't keep it alive there now.)

From the first site, of the 3 or so 'Ice Star' plants which I ordered, only one of them had double flowers. The other two were TALL single Shasta daisies.

Of the 5-6 plants which I bought from another site this spring, NONE of them were 'Ice Star', and 3-4 of them ended up dying (2 of those due to a different irrigation issue which I thought had been fixed). The 2 survivors are medium tall (this year they are medium tall; who knows about next year?) single flowered plants.

I really wish that good, reputable nurseries such as White Flowered Farm (which has 'Ice Star') would ship Shasta daisies to CA!
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