Daisies and Sweet William
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- June
- 26
It’s been a good year for my daisies.
They self-seed and move around the yard, in and out of the lawn, field and garden beds. I like that about them.
Like so many other self-sowers, they like to plant themselves in open pathways. I can’t bear to mow them down till they finish blooming.
A clump just outside my new root garden.
They mix well with sweet William, which blooms around the same time and also self-sows easily.
They have a spicy fragrance and work surprising well as cut flowers — very long lasting in a vase indoors. Deer never bother them.
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on Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
