Grow Your Secret Garden Bellis Tasso Strawberry Cream

Bellis Tasso Strawberry Cream -100 Seeds Named after the greatest Italian poet of the Renaissance is this fine new range of very ornamental, cultivated Daisies. A great improvement on previous pomponette types, the poet's flowers are larger, densely double with tight, tubular petals and borne on short, strong stems on compact rosettes of foliage. If you want to be creative mix them together with white Bellis to create different patterns and make your own unique flower composition. Sowing: Where winters are mild, direct seed from mid summer for winter and spring bloom. Elsewhere, for a good show of late spring colour, start seeds indoors in midwinter at 13-18°C (55-65°F) - 8 to 10 weeks before transplanting outdoors. Sow in pots or trays of moist seed compost and cover with a very fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Keep at a temperature of between 15-20°C (59-68°F). Keep in light and make sure that the soil is moist. When large enough to handle, transplant the seedlings into 7.5cm (3in) pots or trays to grow on. Gradually acclimatise to outdoor conditions for 10-15 days before planting out (after October for winter flowering). Plant 15cm (6in) apart. Sowing Direct: Plant seeds outdoors in the open ground or in a cold frame from mid summer to early autumn. Sow seeds on the surface of the soil and keep moist until seedlings are established. Protect seedlings with a light mulch of straw until frost danger is past. The seedlings should be thinned out to 5cm (2in) apart. Transplant in the autumn to the beds where they are to flower. They will flower in spring the following year.