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There are lots of easy flower seeds to sow and grow in May. You can help your garden wildlife by growing beautiful open-centred blooms. It’s Spring and at last things are warming up outdoors. Spring sown flowers often bloom in just 8-10 weeks so it’s the perfect time to choose what you’d love to see in your garden this year. Checkout Seeds to Sow in May for some inspiration and ideas. Wishing you a very Happy and Flower Filled Spring. Thanks for visiting and Happy Gardening. Gillian 🙂
Leucanthemum vulgare
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Leucanthemum vulgare Seeds
The Ox-Eye Daisy is one of our most beautiful and popular wildflowers. This lovely perennial plant produces rosettes of dark green leaves with tall stems topped by large white daisy-like flowers. As you can see from the photos, blooms are wide open with large yellow centres which are easy for Bees and Butterflies to land on. In fact they are great for lots of pollinating insects.
Lovely for cottage gardens and for wilder parts of manicured gardens such as an orchard, Ox-eye Daisies flower from May until August or September. They love sun and dappled shade. They are also suited to naturalistic planting schemes and wild flower meadows because they grow beautifully with grasses, knautia, geranium and other wildflowers.
The Ox-Eye Daisy is one of our most beautiful and popular wildflowers. This lovely perennial plant produces rosettes of dark green leaves with tall stems topped by large white daisy-like flowers. As you can see from the photos, blooms are wide open with large yellow centres which are easy for Bees and Butterflies to land on. In fact they are great for lots of pollinating insects.
Lovely for cottage gardens and for wilder parts of manicured gardens such as an orchard, Ox-eye Daisies flower from May until August or September. They love sun and dappled shade. They are also suited to naturalistic planting schemes and wild flower meadows because they grow beautifully with grasses, knautia, geranium and other wildflowers.
Each individual flower is upward facing which makes is jolly useful in the garden or as a cut flower. Grow in full sun with some dappled shade and well drained soil for best results.
| Genus | Leucanthemum vulgare |
| Common name | Ox-Eye Daisy |
| Plant Type | Hardy Perennial. May also be treated as an annual. Cut Flower. |
| Height & Spread | 60cm (2 feet) tall x 30cm (1 foot) spread |
| Sow Seeds | For the earliest flowers direct sow in late summer - autumn (Aug/Sept-October). Alternatively treat as annual flowers and direct sow in spring (February-April). |
| Thin/Plant Out | Allow a minimum space of 30cm per plant. |
| Conditions Required | Leucanthemum vulgare love well drained soil. They prefer a site with plenty of sunshine and some dappled shade too. |
| Flower Production | Blooms are produced from May until August/September. Once flowering is over cut back or mow over the plants if naturalised in grass. |
| Picking | Cut flowers regularly and dead-head to make sure that your plants continue to produce new blooms. When cutting place the cut flowers into a tall bucket of clean water. Allow to rest overnight before arranging. Lasts up to 7 days as a cut flower. (Don't use too many in one vase as their scent can be overpowering!) |
| Planting Combinations | If you have the space I suggest you grow plenty of these lovely Ox-Eye Daisies. Grows particularly well with grasses, Knautia, Geranium and other wildflowers. |
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