Pack ’em in for long-lasting punch!
The wide range of later-flowering, fiery-coloured daisies is a real boon for us gardeners. They somehow feel right in both the harsh light of July and August and the gentler glow of September and October. But they have many more benefits than just long flowering and colour. All daisies are composite flowers, meaning the central disc or cone is made up of hundreds of tiny independent flowers, which provide oodles of food to pollinators and draw in useful aphid-munching parasitoid wasps, too. In addition, the nature of the flower structures mean that many hold their form long after flowering, providing autumn and early winter structure for haw frosts and bejewelled cobwebs to adorn.