Actually planting flowerbeds with
plants that bloom in perfect succession can be a little bit tricky. In spring
and summer a lot of stores are actually filled with a huge variety of beautiful
flowering plants. It is very easy to go overboard and quickly fill every empty
space in your garden with these early bloomers. As summer passes, bloom cycles
end and many spring or early summer plants may go dormant, leaving us with
holes or bloom lapses in the garden. In their native and naturalized ranges, the
Montauk daisies plant pick up the slack in late summer to fall.
Montauk Daisy Plant Information
The nipponanthemum nipponicum is the
present genus of Montauk daisies plant. Like any other plants referred to as
daisies, the Montauk daisies plant were classified as chrysanthemum and
leucanthemum in the past, before finally getting their own genus name. ‘Nippon’
is normally used to name any plants that originated in Japan. The Montauk
daisies plants, also known as Nippon daisies, are native to Japan and China. The
plant were given their common name ‘Montauk daisies’ because they have
naturalized on Long Island, all around the town of Montauk. The Nippon or
Montauk daisy plants are hardy in zones five to nine. The plant actually bears
white daisies from midsummer to frost. Their foliage is very thick, dark green
and also succulent. The Montauk daisies plant can hold up under light frost,
but the plant will die back with the first hard freeze. The Montauk daisies plants
attract pollinators to the garden, but are rabbit and deer resistant. The Montauk
daisies plant are also salt and drought tolerant.
How to Grow Montauk
Daisies Plant
The Montauk daisy plant care is quite
simple. The Montauk daisy plant require well-draining soil, and have been found
naturalized on sandy coasts all along the eastern coast of United States. The Montauk
daisy plants also require full sun. Wet or damp soil and also too much shade can
result in rots and fungal diseases on the plant. If the plant is left untended,
the plant will grow in shrub-like mounds to three feet tall and wide, and can also
become leggy and flop over. As the plant bloom in midsummer and fall, the
foliage near the bottom of the plant may yellow and drop. To actually prevent
legginess, most gardeners pinch back the plants in early to midsummer, cutting
the plant back by half. This will actually keep them more tight and compact,
while also forcing the plant to put on their best bloom display in late summer
and fall, when the rest of the garden is waning. Growing the Montauk daisy plant
is great choice.
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