Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER 2015, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jeff---
I can promise you that both the Shasta daisies and the BES will spread
equally far. At least the Shastas only spread from roots. The BES spread by both--
roots AND seeds that go everywhere...You can dig up the new plants
and move them anywhere you want. They come through all this just fine.

My little front-of-the-house bed is inundated with BES--which have buried my pretty
pink, double Azalea. Glad they don't bloom at the same time. That helps.
They are all in bud--so there will be a nice display. They ARE tough!

The BES have also invaded my clump of Heliopsis in the corner of my YUK bed.
Last fall--I pulled out as many as I could--but they are still there...

Do you know that the Rurbeckia Goldstrum is the State Flower of MD?

G.

Pic. 1 is from Shastas I gave my back-yard neighbor several years ago.
he never does anything with gardening...so they just spread and spread,

#2 is BES in my small front bed in 2011. I hate ti think what they will look like
now!

#3--Shastas from above.nice.....

Both are beautiful--BUT........g.