Brighten your flower beds with this Shasta daisy from the famous REALFLOR® series, featuring a brilliant pure yellow colour that keeps all its intensity without ever fading in the sun. Its early and uninterrupted blooming produces a multitude of large flower heads with fringed petals surrounding a distinct golden heart. Boasting a compact habit and remarkably rigid stems, it proudly stands up to bad weather without ever flopping. It is the ideal perennial to inject a lasting dose of sunshine and energy into your summer landscapes.
Characteristics
Foliage : Deciduous, lanceolate, and finely toothed leaves of a glossy dark green, forming a dense carpet of greenery that makes the brightness of the flowers pop.
Flowering / Fruiting / Stems : Flowers in luminous sulphur-yellow heads carried by short, sturdy, and well-branched floral stems that require no staking.
Light Requirements : Requires full sun exposure to offer maximum flower abundance and maintain its compact habit.
Habit : Rounded, compact, and very well branched.
Growth : Medium growth rate, quickly forming a dense and vigorous clump.
Soil : Flourishes in rich, moist, and loose soil, but absolutely demands excellent drainage, especially during the cold season.
Temperature : Hardy to zone 5.
Resistances : Offers excellent resistance to fungal foliage diseases as well as to White-tailed deer.
Use
Types of use : Integrate this variety at the front of borders, along flower beds, or grow it in containers to brighten up your patios and balconies.
Decorative advantages : Creates powerful chromatic contrasts with blue or purple perennials and provides excellent, long-lasting cut flowers for your bouquets.
Maintenance
Watering : Provide regular watering during the first year of establishment. Subsequently, maintain moderately moist soil but let the surface dry out between waterings to prevent excess moisture.
Fertilization : Incorporate a good amount of compost at planting. Apply a natural granular fertilizer for flowering plants in early spring to sustain the production of new buds.
Taille : Regularly remove faded flowers to stimulate new waves of buds throughout the season. Cut the plant back close to the ground in autumn or early spring.
Plantation : Space plants 35 to 45 cm apart in soil previously enriched with organic matter, preferably in spring.
Winter protection : Install a mulch of dead leaves or straw in autumn to protect the crown from winter temperature fluctuations, while ensuring you avoid stagnant water accumulations.
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