{"id":13333,"date":"2015-05-11T00:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13333"},"modified":"2015-04-27T02:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T09:15:16","slug":"growing-bellis-perennis-pom-pom-daisies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-bellis-perennis-pom-pom-daisies\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Bellis perennis Pom Pom Daisies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7166608426\/\" title=\"Bellis perennis by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5456\/7166608426_5585f3bf93.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Bellis perennis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cultivation and Growing Tips for Pompom Daisies<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bellis perennis is the name of the small common daisy found in great profusion growing in lawns. Pom Pom Daisy is the cultivated double daisy that makes a good spring flowering ornamental plant.<\/li>\n<li>Grow from seed sown in late spring\/early summer outdoors in a sheltered, shady site in a well prepared seed bed about  \u00c2\u00bcin deep.<\/li>\n<li>Germination usually takes 14-21 days.<\/li>\n<li>Thin seedlings out to  4-6in  apart when they are large enough to handle and finally transplant to flowering site in autumn  in sun or part shade for flowering the following spring.<\/li>\n<li>Bellis perenis Pom Poms are great for small beds, edging, windowboxes etc. <\/li>\n<li>Greenfly love to eat the tender leaves so keep an eye open in case you need to treat the plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7166588690\/\" title=\"Bellis perennis pom pom daisies, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5275\/7166588690_2a9766c4fb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Bellis perennis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong> Common Names and Varieties of Pom Poms to Consider <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pompom daisies are available in red, pink and white. You can buy them as self colours or in mixed packets of seed<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Tasso Mixed&#8217; is one of the best pomponette bellis ever introduced! Flowers are  larger than normal pom &#8211; pom types, on compact, short, strong flower stems. The bright colours of rose, deep rose, red and white, will all give excellent results<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Petite Pom Pom&#8217;  and &#8216;Pomponette&#8217; have rosettes of mid-green leaves with narrow stems topped with pink, dark pink and white pompons from early spring to autumn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Old &amp; Odd Tips From Gardeners Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pom Pom daisies look good in containers, rockeries and paired with Tulips.<\/li>\n<li>Deadheading will prolong flowering or leave to seed and collect for next season.<\/li>\n<li>Will grow in some shade and withstand an open windy position<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>You can often obtain seeds or plants from our mail order company of choice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=bellis\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7166617248\/\" title=\"Lincoln 119 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7227\/7166617248_a3cd17feba.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lincoln 119\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Credits <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=daisy\"> Buy more varieties of Daisies at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compact clumps of pink red and white pom pom shaped Daisies add an early splash of bright colour to off set Tulips and other early summer flowers. Easy to grow as biennials sown soon and give Pom Pom daisies a try from next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}