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shasta daisies

WelshwindyhillsWelshwindyhills Posts: 58
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Hallo, I have the very tall variety and they tend to get battered in the wind and rain of the Welsh hills.  Has anyone tried Chelsea chopping them with success? I’m a bit reluctant to do this in case I don’t get any flowers that year.  Thank you! 

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  • BiljeBilje Posts: 811
    I haven’t done it but I don’t think it would work on your Shasta daisies. If you cut  the flowering stem back I think you’d just lose the flower, they don’t branch out like other perennials do, or at least mine don’t. Of course I might be wrong. Another year just give it a go on a part of the clump and see what happens. 
  • WelshwindyhillsWelshwindyhills Posts: 58
    That’s what I was afraid of.  I have several clumps but I’ll be brave next year and chop some off unobtrusively so as not to make a mess of them all. 
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I had the same problem and in the end I decided to switch them out for a smaller cultivar. I believe I went for snowcap which gets to 18" at its biggest and has stayed upright even when everything else has been demolished by the rain this year.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You need to have good support in place for a windy site - either physical, man made ones, or other plants.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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