The sun is finally out today but it is not bright and sunny like these summertime daisies. It is believed that the flower’s name came from a combination of the words “day’s eye,” because the head of the daisy closes completely at night and reopens in the morning.
Daisies are very good at self-propagation. One healthy daisy has the ability to produce more than 25,000 seeds and that daisy seeds buried for six years still have over an 80 percent germination rate. It is no wonder that my brother’s hayfield sometimes looks like it has more daisies than hay!
“Day’s Eyes”
