Shasta Daisy Mark Ii

One plant, Shasta Daisy, owns such easy beauty— belies it's enduring nature. Needs no coddling; infiltrates, sprouts boldly year on year. Tall, erect, flaunts pure white petals around a golden center; resists hungry insects. Wizard of plants, Luther Burbank, absorbed fifteen years to make the purest white color he loved; breeding, crossing, combining four— perfection. Bend down— look: brilliant white petals, neon yellow center in a spiral nautilus whorl, all on a stout green stalk. How many petals? A perfect thirty four? She loves me, she loves me not—count for yourself. Maybe average.