Flower/Plant of the Week – SHASTA DAISY

Shasta Daisy flowers provide wonderful summer blooms. The plant offers the traditional daisy flower along with evergreen foliage that lasts year round in many locations. Shasta Daisy is the perfect, low maintenance perennial for naturalizing and filling in bare spots in the landscape. I have them in my garden for years and can’t remember when I watered or fed them. They are still looking good. It was originally known as Chrysanthemum.
Several cultivars of Shasta Daisy plants are available in garden centers beginning in spring. Some may reach 3 feet in height while others are just a few inches tall. Either way, Shasta Daisy is a garden perennial that not only give you flowers in the garden, but you can cut them and make fresh flower arrangements as stand-alone or combined with other flowers.