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    This week… Marguerites

    Jul 05, 2022 4 minutes

    MARGUERITES are small, short-lived, frost-tender shrubs with masses of daisy-like flowers in summer and sometimes for longer.

    The plants are more or less evenly rounded in shape, the new growth soon becoming woody and developing into a repeatedly branched evergreen shrub. The irregularly divided leaves vary from dark green to silvery grey, sometimes split into slender divisions. The flowers can be single, like daisies, crested or anemone-centred, with a crown of short petals in the centre of each flower, or double with a mass of petals.

    Various flower forms

    The flowers come in reds, yellows and pinks, plus white, in their various flower

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