spring

My house was built in 1882.   Two years later, in 1884, botanist Luther Burbank (1849-1926) began to build a better daisy.  Another seventeen years passed while Burbank crossed various daisy species.  Finally, in 1901, he introduced a new ornamental plant named after one of California’s natural wonders.  The Shasta daisy, Leucanthemum x superbum, was born, … Read more