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July 10, 2020

Daisies bring a sunny look to the garden

By LEE REICH
Associated Press

Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy.

Daisies also hold attraction for poets. Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet of the 14th century, wrote “...of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most thise floures white and rede, Swiche as men callen dayses in our toune.”


 
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