Among the numerous Bellis species from the Mediterranean region, the common daisy (Bellis perennis) has made it to central and northern Europe. Wherever fancy daisies like it, they accompany us through the beautiful season with their white-yellow ray flowers. This guide provides you with useful information about the flowering period.

Bellis have a very long flowering period

The main flowering period is from March to October

Behind the dainty form of wild daisies lies a robust constitution that gives us a never-ending flowering period. Bellis perennis has learned to withstand freezing temperatures. As a result, the small perennial puts on its flowers long before its Mediterranean counterparts. The following overview summarizes when you can look forward to the charming flower heads:

  • Main flowering period of the wild species: March to October
  • Main flowering time for breeding varieties: March to June
  • Mild winter wine-growing regions: January to November

Since various regions have been completely spared from frost as a result of global warming, the white-yellow ray florets can be admired all year round. This applies to wine-growing areas or along the Lower Rhine and in gardens with a protected microclimate.

Location quality influences the flowering time

Daisies are among the sun worshipers. Assign a spot in full sun to shade from the sun and the flowering period will in practice fulfill what the theory promises. In shady locations with heavy, wet loam, Bellis only manage to have a sparse and shortened flowering period.

Cleaning prolongs the flowering - that's how it works

If you prefer undemanding flowers in creative garden design, you cannot avoid easy-care Bellis perennis. Strictly speaking, you can leave daisies in the bed to themselves. Watering takes over Mother Nature with summer rain. Fertilizer is superfluous anyway.

In order for daisies to keep what the name promises, withered flowers should be removed regularly. If cleaning out individual flower remains is too time-consuming, cut the mini perennials back immediately after the main flowering period to elicit a pretty after-flowering from them.

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Bellis perennis uses a clever survival strategy to survive in the Central European climate. The bloom beauty thrives as a biennial, hardy mini perennial. This trait implies that it survives the first winter as a green rosette of leaves, blooms protractedly in the second year, and then dies. Before that, the ingenious survivor multiplied in large numbers by self-seeding.

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