Botanical name: Bellis perennis
Folk names: day’s eye

Type: Perennial

Wildlife: Nectar for short-tongued insects including hoverflies and solitary bees.

Flowers: April to July, or all year in some places!

Decorative merit: Little open-petalled white flowers with yellow centres on short hairy stalks above flattened rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves. Low-growing and spreading. Flowers close at night and in cold weather.

Where: Sun or part-shade. Short grass or meadows. Verges. Gravel beds. Rockeries. Nooks and crannies. Edging borders and containers.

Folklore: Making daisy chains while sat on the grass can be a childhood past time. An old saying goes: ‘When you put your foot on seven daisies, summer is come.’

Aster family relative of yarrow

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