I have developed an insatiable urge to find out all about Marguerite daisies. The key that turned on my interest was a chance remark at the Friday garden club 'that these little daisies have disappeared from Sydney.
Apparently they like the cool so maybe they died out in some hot summers.
So far i have learnt they are Argyranthemum fructescens, Argyr meaning silver or coin, so I suppose they are referring to the little round flower heads. They are Compositae, made up of many tiny flowers and the petals we see are bracts around the edge.
They seem come in white, pink and yellow.
There are some bred for the heat of Australia, called Federation daisies and some called Madeira.
So far I have a white, a smaller white called Madeira, a pink and mottled colour wet small one, a pale yellow one that was half dead at a big tool shop. It revived easily in a bucket of water. Also a cutting of a pink one the I found in an old garden.
