What is painted Daisy?

Painted Daisy is a beautiful perennial belonging to Asteraceae or Aster, a family that has folded floral heads that are typical of Daisy or Chrysanthemum. In general, buyers can find that botanists and growers report it under different names of the genus and species. Gardeners must therefore be vigilant when buying the race. Some growers call it a painted lady. Unlike some members of the Aster family, stems and leaves painted Daisy plants are hairless. Flower heads are usually up to 3 inches (7.5 cm) across and often bloom in shades of pink, lilac or white with large yellow centers. The outer flowers, called rays, resemble petals. Inner, called disc flowers, are small tubular flowers. Painted daisies have bright yellow disk flowers. The cultivar Known as Brenda has a clear cerize pink floral head, while Eileen May Robinson has a finely tinted pink. James Kelway Flowerheads can be quite dramatic with their bright yellow disk flowers contrasting withDeep Florettes Crimson Ray. Snow Cloud lives until its name by producing snow white flowers.

Painted Daisy is bushy, herbal perennial. Herbal plants lose their above -ground growth at the end of the growing season and in the spring they remain from their roots. These plants usually do not develop wood stems, although older plants can get some wooden growth near the ground level.

leaves painted daisies are generally elliptical to elongated shapes. Their rough, ferna appearance comes from their pinnatisect structure. Pinnatisect has deep lobes that cut almost into the main part of the sheet. On the painted Daisy leaf, these deep slices are generally the opposite. The leaves are usually basal, which means they grow on the base of plants.

Gardeners usually plant painted daisies in a pot, border and sometimes rock gardens. As they are used, it depends on the cultivar. UsualCage painted plants of daisies grow to a height of about 18 to 30 inches (45 to 75 cm) with a span of up to 18 inches (45 cm). Brenda and Eileen May Robinson can the highest heights of 32 inches (80 cm). Many cultivars make good cut flowers with long -free stems.

Often growers spread the painted daisies of seed sowing or by distributing ripe plants. When using seeds, gardeners plant them at the end of winter or early spring, usually when the soil temperature is about 55 ° F (about 13 ° C). Generally gardeners divide plants in spring.

When buying painted Daisy plants, the gardener should know the synonyms that growers and kindergartens use for him. Pctures sometimes sell it under his former family pyrethrum as p. Coccineum and sometimes p. Roseum . Although most people refer to it as tanacetum coccineum , some refer to it as chrysanthemum coccineum . Any of these different families belongs to the Aster family.