Please find for sale 500+ Common Lawn Daisy seeds ( Bellis Perennis). Also called Common Daisy, Lawn Daisy or English daisy, this is the most iconic of British native wildflowers. Traditionally seen in lawns, it is actually a herb. Young leaves and the flowers can be eaten raw in salads and it is also used as a tea and as a vitamin supplement. Although its seeds are tricky to gather and hence relatively expensive, once established this plant will spread quickly and give you flowers from February to October!

Daisy seeds are small so our seed packets for these are mixed with a fine sharp sand to facilitiate handling and sowing.


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Germination Guide 
  • Sow indoors 
  • Surface onto the surface of moist well-draining seed compost. 
  • As light is required for germination, do not cover the seeds but a list dusting of sharp sand helps retain moisture.
  • Mist the surface with water
  • Cover seed tray with clear lid or clingfilm with a few air holes for ventilation
  • Keep at around 20°C. 
  • Germination is usally 10-15 days. 
  • Pot on seedlings once large enough to handle
  • Harden off before plant out once danger of frost has passed
  • Can also be sown direct outside in Autumn/Winter and given a light mulch of straw

TOP TIP! Don't use all your seeds in the same tray just in case rot sets in. 

Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedliing poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Don't Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and YouTube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends . The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.


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