{"id":7383,"date":"2010-05-18T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2012-07-12T01:38:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:38:01","slug":"growing-small-daisy-erigeron-or-fleabane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-small-daisy-erigeron-or-fleabane\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Small Daisies &#8211; Erigeron or Fleabane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Erigeron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609807088\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1051\/4609807088_dba4d1cc85.jpg\" alt=\"Erigeron\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are many species of daisy like Erigeron in annual, perennial and biennial varieties. Flowers may be small but you get lots of them<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erigeron  karvinskianus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daisy-like flowers with buds opening a dark pink turning white.<\/li>\n<li>The petals are finer and more  delicate than the common daisy and the whole flower-head slightly  smaller.<\/li>\n<li>The leaves are small, plants form mats, and each plant  can spread over quite a large area.<\/li>\n<li>Good drainage and plenty of sunshine are essential for plants to survive cold damp winters.<\/li>\n<li>Sun also keeps the plant small and compact.<\/li>\n<li>Plants are easily raised from seed.<\/li>\n<li>The Royal Horticultural Society has given it an Award of Garden Merit (AGM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Erigeron by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609197583\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4609197583_a76d936c17.jpg\" alt=\"Erigeron\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erigeron aureus <\/strong>&#8211; The Alpine Yellow Fleabane is shown above<br \/>\n<strong>Erigeron &#8216;Dunkelste Aller&#8217;<\/strong> has a dark purple flower<br \/>\n<strong>Erigeron Alpinus<\/strong> grows 6&#8243;-8&#8243; high with mauve florets and a yellow disc.<br \/>\n<strong>Erigeron glaucus<\/strong> the Seaside Daisy<br \/>\nfor other species <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erigeron\">see<\/a> selected taxa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Locations for Erigeron<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13751\">Coastal locations <\/a>enjoying sandy soil.<\/li>\n<li> Informal cottage gardens are where I remember seeing this plant as  edging,<\/li>\n<li> Erigeron is low maintenance and small enough to look good in a  Rock garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many species of daisy like Erigeron in annual, perennial and biennial varieties. Flowers may be small but you get lots of them Erigeron karvinskianus Daisy-like flowers with buds opening a dark pink turning white. The petals are finer and more delicate than the common daisy and the whole flower-head slightly smaller. The leaves are small, plants form mats, and each plant can spread over quite a large area. Good drainage and plenty of sunshine are essential for plants&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-small-daisy-erigeron-or-fleabane\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","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=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}