Well aren't those the cutest daisies!

Edna

MaryLu: Not sure if I have crazy or not. I winter sowed these from a swap and they were just labeled "daisy." What do you think?

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Mine just started blooming a week or two ago. They're in full sun but moist clay soil. I hope mine do as well as yours. What makes "crazy" crazy?

Tracy

I think yours does look like CD. I think the "crazy" is that it is double/triple, frilly, quilled petals, etc. Not just plain single petals.

Shasta daisies all sometimes called Chrysanthemum maximum or Chrysanthemum x superbum or Leucanthemum superbum or Leucanthemum maximum.

Crazy Daisy is sold as Leucanthemum superbum. I know this because when I first read it's name I read it as 'super-bum'. :)

Libby

In that case, if mine is "crazy," how in the world have you had yours blooming for a month already? Perhaps mine is slow because this is only her second season (the first season blooming). What conditions do you have yours in? Do you deadhead the spent blooms?

Sorry, I know you were looking for advice and here I am mooching the advice off of you!

Tracy

Tracy - daisies are just about the easiest plant to grow. I find my Shastas invasive. I mow them to the ground and they pop right back. I engore them, chop them back when they look spent and they'll rebloom soon enough. Mine bloom from spring till the end of summer if I deadhead.

Edna

Tracy, not a problem. Not sure why mine are blooming earlier, other than to say everything here is blooming several weeks early this year. I have them planted in full sun.

Mary Lu, whatever the secret is to growing the Crazies, you've found it. Yours are lovely!
Here is MY story:
I bought three 'Crazy Daisy' about 4 years ago. They didn't perform too well in my zone 5 garden, but I didn't expect them to in the first year. That winter 2 died (the ONLY plants not to make it in the entire garden). The lone remaining plant gave a lackluster performance that summer, then contracted something fatal and bit the dust before September. Not one to give up, I bought more plants the following spring, putting them in a different location. The result was the same. I've given up on them.
Through all of this my 'Becky' shasta daisy was strong and beautiful and bloomed her head off. I've divided her many times over the years and the offspring are as sturdy and full of blooms as the parent. Go figure.

the end

Patti

I LOVED my CD. It did wonderful in the OK heat and bloomed continuously. I use the past tense, because this past fall, my FIL weeded them while I was gone!!! He is apparently a very good weeder. :o(

I managed to salvage my columbines, but the CD's just didn't make it. They're on my "to get" list. Maybe that should be on my request list for the CG seed swap!

HW

I had some really shaggy ones, but they hated the heat. I did get them back a second year but they gave it up mid summer. Too bad, they were cute.

I have these and love them! This is their third year in my garden and they look better than ever! If I kept really good records, I could answer your question about how long they bloom-but I can't remember.

I don't remember exactly what these daisies are called, but they look a little crazy to me.

ThinMan

ThinMan: Those are super cool!

HW: I'll probably save seeds from mine, and I can set aside a packet to send to you when we do the swap if you'd like.

Mine seem to be flopping a bit now. How are the rest of yours holding up? Do you find they need staking?

Tracy

I have never had really good luck with growing any kind of daisy, but I have to tell you I am so enjoying the pictures that have been posted!

I spent a good part of my childhood summers picking daisies and other wildflowers in a meadow near my home. I still remember proudly giving bouquets of wildflowers to my mother.

Thanks for the daisy memories. :-)

Marilyn