Re: [gardeners] Shasta daisy standards?

lneuru (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:19:57 -0400

looks like a marguerite to me.  I saw them in the Mediterranean, and we ahd
them at home in Calif.
Lucinda
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> From: Carol J. Bova <bova@bovagems.com>
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] Shasta daisy standards?
> Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:59 PM
> 
> Maybe Euryops pectinatus?  Yellow bush daisy.
> I have them trained as standards at the cemetery behind a monument 
> display.  Bush form is shown here with a pic of the flower:
> http://www.plantadviser.com/azcentral/plants/eurypect.htm
> 
> Carol
> Sunland, CA
> 
> At 07:03 AM 8/21/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >When a reader asked if a "daisy tree" was hardy in our zone 6 area, I 
> >asked the botanical name, and since it didn't come with one, I suggested

> >he go back to the nursery he bought it from and ask them.  A friend 
> >insists it may be a Shasta daisy standard, and I don't see how anyone 
> >could make a standard out of a Shasta daisy.  Can you? TIA, Margaret L