A Way of Dealing with Shasta Daisies That Fall Over 

How in twenty five years of struggling to remove plants have I never thought of using a pick axe!? This is the greatest gardening find of the year!

Well that's certainly one way to deal with tall daisies that fall over--get rid of them! I thoroughly enjoyed watching your enthusiasm, but I'm still wondering how to deal with falling over daisies that I want to KEEP. LOL

Totally agree with gardening you never stop and you never stop learning. You have an awesome garden.

I've had a problem with leggy plants like Shasta Daisies, Echinacea and Autumn Joy Sedums. This Spring I bought a roll of 30"high x 50' black welded fence. I cut off 30" lengths and made a barrel vault (a semi-cyclinder) about 14" high at the center that I set over the newly sprouted plants. I pushed the cut edges into the soil and added a garden staple. All the plants grew in a natural form through the fence and were supported. The fence completed disappeared into the foliage within a couple of weeks, and not one plant has fallen over yet (Sepember). Average cost $2 per plant.

I love watching you. I feel the same way. EVERY year I say I'm finished moving plants. And I still keep moving, learning and growing. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

Me: Ooo, what's that pretty pink flower next to the daisies? John: *hacks plant with ax*

I had it on 1.5x speed for a video prior, but kept it. You’re about as energetic as gardener Ciscoe Morris! Love your pup! 🐶

My heart hurts to see the lovely blooms hacked out and trampled. But it’s obvious you are an artist and know very well your craft. Amazing (but painful) to watch.

Love this style of just getting on with accept why works what does not and not over planning and then the growth of how a job changes

To be fair to the poor Shasta daisies it is difficult not to flop when growing almost under a huge hydrangea bush. 😁

You Sir, are a gem to say the least. I am in the USA watching you ........loving every minute. Thank you for sharing and helping us all have better gardens and more fun doing it. Love you for all you do for gardens and animals.

Omg! Teddy at the end!

Ya, like others are saying, why not prune the daisies in late May/early June, even mid June so that they're shorter, fuller, and less likely to flop? Hey! Thrilled to see those cutting John stuck in the ground last year because after watching that video this past spring, I went out and took hardwood cuttings from a 100 year old hydrangea (yes! original planting with the house that turned 100 this year) that now gets almost no light, and a 100 year old once-beautiful rose bush that is now so shaded it barely grows, let alone flowers. Aaaaand, after doing nothing but sticking them in the ground (and watering them...I'm not in Ireland, alas), about half of them took, like John said, and I'm thrilled. So: Thank you for that so much.

Love to watch your passion! Thank you for sharing your gorgeous garden!

Omg lol when you started hacking away I died 💀 😭

I’m going to have to get one of those wide axe type chopper. You don’t mess around you just get the job done . 😊❤️👍

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. I wish my Shasta daisies were as lush as yours!! Thank you from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas - The US!

welcome to another episode of John Lord butchers plants

"I'll take yas all on !" ,😂 Love it. He must have a lot of vases in the house.

Hello from Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania. Home of the Penquins and Steelers. Your pup is adorable. Good choice with the gold flowers in front of the Annabelle. I didn't even know about the chelsie chop, and here I've been cutting down many flowers all along thinking I was an original.

Hey, as always, fantastic video, it's a joy to watch you working and transforming this gorgeous place. Many thanks.

I am rationing my watching of your lovely videos but like everybody else I sure hope you make some more! 1.I’ve used my brother’s mattock, it is very useful for making neat narrow drainage channels but it is really heavy for me. After some thought though, I can’t think of anything better for a fight. 2. I am trying out a Helenium called Mardi Gras. It seems to be very dwarf and it is a blooming beast! Just about everything else is done but it is still unscathed by the frosts we have had and in full bloom. I hope to divide it or take cuttings next year. 3.I was absolutely surprised that you would consider shasta daisies to go in front of the hydrangea and was saying to the screen, “Try this cute Helenium.” 4. I still cannot just rip out plants and discard them. I either give them away or plant them in a strip in the very back of my yard. Cuz I am not a professional and am too sentimental.

I love my nights gardening and thank you for all I being learning from your channel!🙏

You can just tell everything he touches turns to something beautiful...

I need those tools, and the muscles to use them!! I really like his methods!

Kinda did the same to my annuals in their glory today in favor of Hydrangea shrubs 😂 Its hard but if you have a vision you gotta go for it😆Good job John, I enjoy your videos, you have a magnificent garden!

I knew you weren’t gonna put more white next to the hydrangea. I know you too well now.

Just catching up on some of John's older videos. Very delighted to see him come around on the lowly Helenium. When I first saw them open in my own garden, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. They're in my top three or four flowers. Perhaps understandably, one of my other top four is the Gaillardia (blanket flower). Cone flowers included, and the treasure flower (Gazania). Love John's videos. Upbeat, fun, informative, and just visually so appealing.

RIP shasta daisies!

Okay, Mr John Lord, please send these beautiful Shasta Daisies to me to Indiana.I will be glad to take them and care for them... please don't destroy them , but plant them on the side of the road somewhere, ... God bless you

WOW! John reeally does "HATE" Shasta Daisies that fall over.

It occurs to me that if you treated it like the helenium and chopped it down earlier on it may have flowered at a lower height and no flopping would have occured. Of course with a large garden like yours the clever thing may be to plant a shorter variety and skip the extra chore altogether.

I fell in love with Heleniums a few years back myself. Very different and colorful look. Like a "birdie" in Badminton. Some do get leggy.

You have an awesome garden.

You should hear how the plants talk about him when he turns his back.....

Love this!

Easy to understand and enthusiastic

Beautiful little dog. Don't you grow the dwarf sunflowers John, they are really cute x but they always remind me of overgrown daisies. I love that pampas grass lovely and shaggy.

Se your garden soon. We take a plane to Dublin in the late spring 2022. From Stockholm.

The ones I had in full sun fell over. I noticed the ones I left in a shadier area stand nice and tall.

In part of your opening, you are standing next to a tall patch of something tall and white and you shake one. Just wondering what it is

Love your videos.

very nice video my friend I like it. like # 400

Im with you John, if it has to be staked pull it up and replace

Garding aside sir, you have the best collections of shirts!

I m happy with my shasta daisies, never thought they are floppy. Just learnt I have a shorter variety

Gardening grows legs, how very true 😄😀😁

It's killing me watching you digging up that beautiful ground cover persicaria. I've been looking for that plant for ages. Very difficult to find here in the USA. I love how rough you are with the plants. It has made me a more "fearless" gardener! LOL

Does anyone know the dark pink / pastel pink plant next to the daisies? Persicaria?

As the Hydrangeas in the background fall to the ground...but they are Hydrangeas! So, they get a pass. LOL

Why trample over all the pink flowers? Are you removing them too? Then you did.

John, I have some rudbeckia maxima. They’ll grow as tall as 7-8’ but first slight wind they’re resting on the ground. They flower but are now curling to reach sunlight. Would I get the same affect as the sunflowers if I cut the original flowering stems with the maximas? Will trimming carnations do the same? My wife loves them but they fall over. I’m like you. I’ve removed a bunch of things because they just fall over.

I also knew you woudnt put white in front of white

From where did you get that floral print?! Not from your garden, I hope.

My Bishops are somewhat smaller than yours, John. With larger varieties such as Riverton Beauty you do the Chelsea Chop at the end of May and it results in later flowering and less chance of flopping over.

OMG.... poor daisies 🙁 .... beautiful garden though !!

I was wondering why you would put white Shasta daisy next to a white hydrangea. I am very happy I watched the video till the end and see you've changed your mind. 🤣 Now, can you please tell me how I can deal with with tall daisy I want to keep ?

Could you not do the chealsea chop to save it !!!!! Thanks for your time 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Why did you kill the daisies?

I didn't know Tommy Tiernan had a gardening channel 😂😆😅

What is the name of the pink flowering plant next to the Shasta Daisy. Really enjoy your show

What do you mean the gravel was only put on for the soil? Thankyou- your videos are so informative and humerous 😁

So would the Chelsea Chop have saved these Shastas? Although I think changing it up and adding more colour was a good choice too. 4:50 John's true colours? xD Poor persicaria D:

Wow, well, that's one way to deal with it. Too drastic for me. Just todsy i spent 4 hours deadheading my shastas that fell over. But I just cut them at a bud and staked them up.

best part @11:09

Oh my god, that's brutal what a waste of plants ???

Getting rid of them was not what I was looking for

Me (new to this channel): Ooh good, someone's going to show me how to rescue my daisies that fell over in a storm.... John: HACK! Me: 🤤 😆 Hi everyone!

And a lot of people paying for roses in may 🤣 everywhere that’s insane 😅😅😅

What causes the Shasta Daisies to infested with aphids???

You can deal with anything by getting rid of it lmao.

Savage!

Great in a fight😂😂

Poor Shasta cut off in her prime. Hah! I was thinking about Helenium for the Shasta spot.

Brutal lol.😀 and genius. Just don't remove all the gravel for the puppies sake 😀

No one noticed that you Chelsea Chopped your hair. That floppy hair had to go. Looks good. You are now a spry young man. You didn't use your garden pruners did you?

Interesting to see how you resolved the problem with tall perennials that need staking or they will fall. I have those taller shasta daisies too and have to support them by surrounding them with stakes every summer. (See old video of shasta daisies on my channel.) Currently, as it is the start of spring, they are just starting to grow again. I will give them the Chelsea chop when they are around a foot high, and that will keep them a little smaller. I don't mind how they look when they are supported. They still look beautiful. :) But it's good to know there are smaller varieties, for when I tire of propping the tall ones up. I will be interested to see how your dwarf varieties look when they are fully grown. I do agree that a garden is never finished. There are always new areas to develop or old ones to refurbish. Thanks for the great video!

Nope. I won't destroy them. When you grow them from seeds ...you cannot do that. They are beautiful in any way, even on the ground if they like so....

@4:30 you really should cut that Shasta back before digging it up. Make it easy on yourself Johnnie. And set a good example for your viewers too.

Hate my daisies They are definitely going

I don't think an 11 minute video on how to did up daisies is very useful

You vandal John . Those poor persicarias ! K

I’m kind of scared to watch your videos. I request you to please dig a plant out with some rootball 🙏 and give it your friends and family members. The otherwise healthy plans and the friends will appreciate it.

Don't like the color of your house? Burn it down!

WTF? THIS IS THE WORST GARDENER I SEEN ON RU-vid! WHY DONT YOU GIVE THE PLANTS AWAY INSTEAD OF BUTCHER THEM LIKE THAT? 😡