The French Daisy Earrings

The French Daisy
Love’s True Destiny Revealed in a Single Flower

She sits in a field; hair kissed gold by the setting sun. A single flower rests in her hand; dreams swirl with the clouds above as she begins to pluck, revealing the true heart of the one she loves. She wants to know. She needs to know. She must know.

The French Daisy Love Poem

He loves me a little.
He loves me a lot.
He loves me passionately.
He loves me madly.
He loves me not at all.

She continues around the flower, love’s fate hangs in the balance of the few remaining petals. Her heart skips. The final petals fall, and love’s true destiny is revealed, “He loves me passionately”.

While the American daisy is simply “yes” or “no” (“he loves me, he loves me not”), the French Daisy is a flower poem of subtly nuanced love. All daisies have a varying petal count.

The French Daisy is the Symbol
of Love’s Destiny

Surprise Daisy Garden

I built this heart-shaped rock terrace about ten years ago. Heart Rock Beach, in our neighborhood, is where we collect heart-shaped surfacing stones to top the stone wall surrounding the terrace. In recent years, I’ve been surprised as daisies have taken over the patio space in the month of June. The daisies grow in the spaces between the tumbled bluestone. In recent years, they grow thick and lush. Because I have several patios, I just let them go wild until July.

Anyone who visits in June is always shown the heart rock daisy terrace. I think it’s interesting that daisies have chosen this romantic patio to claim as their own.
Yes, the heart rocks are at the back of the terrace. We are expanding the surfacing with heart-shaped rocks as we collect more stones.

Daisies at Heart Rock Terrace

This is a close up of the daisies rooted between the tumbled blue stone of the terrace. Some years the self-seeding daisies are so thick you can’t see the blue stone.

French Daisies
In Spring and Fall

There are spring daisies, called Shasta daisies, that bloom in Maine in June. They grow everywhere all over America. They are a hybrid developed in the 1890s from Oxblood daisies. Shasta daisies are smaller. There are also fall daisies called Montauk, which originally came from coastal Japan. They grow on woody, bushy stems and are 2 to 3 feet tall. They bloom in late September through October until after the first frost. Both types are part of the daisy family. Both daisies are beautiful, and both types are part of the French Daisy poem.