Mid-Atlantic Gardening: END OF SEASON FLOWERS!!!! SEPTEMBER 2014, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Since everything grows like on steroids in my daughter's rocky
clay soil-so have her Montauk daisies I gave her maybe...4 years ago?

They were already on their way to being "monsters" by the 2nd year.
Here is what they look like now.
Aina and i were just talking about the best way to prune them She's good at
searching things out on the internet. it is either fall--or early spring.
Whatever she has been doing seems not to be decreasing their size any.

She has 3 clumps of these Daisies. They were cute the 1st 2 years.
Then they grew pretty huge. We moved one of them as it was shading out
the Mandevilla vine she was trying to grow up a trellis by the porch railing.
They are now completely splayed open--possibly from age--or the wight
of the leaves and blooms. Pretty wild! Ugly too....

Just wanted you all to see what they "might" look like in a couple more years.
Gita

1--The front bed of her residence (she rents)
2--One of the 3 clumps of Montauk Daisies in the bed
3--A closer look at the center of the clump--all splayed open.

edited to add tha---t She also has wayyy too many DL's in there--and wants to get rid of them.
Many of them are the old red ones I have. Anyone interested? Come with a shovel.

This message was edited Oct 7, 2014 2:26 PM