Don't forget the petite English daisy, Bellis perennis, when looking for cool-season charm. The pink, rose or white blooms, which resemble buttons or small daisies, make 6- to 8-inch sweet bouquets ...

Part of the Asteraceae family, the daisy is rumoured to get its name from the Old English phrase “daes eage,” or “day’s eye,” because the petals close around the golden centre at night and re-open in ...

Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy. What makes a flower a daisy? The child's daisy is a circle surrounded by ...

Q: I'm hoping you can identify something for me. Last weekend, we visited the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, and I saw a small, white daisy-like flowering groundcover used on the front lawn.

There is only one flower used in the age-old "love me, love me not" petal plucking tradition of childhood. It is the daisy, the signature of the composite family where all flowers share the same ...

A garden lover got me thinking about daisies. His small yard has been transformed into a miniature version of the tallgrass prairie that once cloaked the deep loam where his house stands now. “The ...

Q: I need your help in identifying a ground-cover plant I often see growning in lawns, such as those in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It has small daisylike flowers, pink and white with yellow ...

Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy. Daisies also hold attraction for poets. Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet of ...