“And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it’s always daisy-time.”
D.H. Lawrence
The flower of the month for April is the Daisy. In the Gerbera pink it is my sister’s favorite flower~ and she is in good company. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip.) It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation.
The flower symbolism associated with the daisy is purity, innocence, loyal love, beauty, patience and friendship.
Daisies are often depicted in meadows in Medieval paintings, also known as a “flowery mead.”
The daisy is believed to be more than 4,000 years old and hairpins decorated with daisies were found during the excavation of the Minoan Palace on the Island of Crete. Even further back, Egyptian ceramics were decorated with daisies! Making it the perfect gift for your Mummy! (sorry…)
Children love daisies, too. Remember making daisy chains as a child? It was a sure sign that Spring had Sprung!

step 1 Collect some daisies.
Feel free to pluck all sorts of different shapes and colors!

step 2 Begin the process
Using your thumbnail, carve a half inch slit into the stem of the daisy.

step 3 Link the daisies
Once you have created a slit, take another daisy from your collection and pull the stem through the slit of the original daisy. This creates the chain-like effect. Repeat this step as many times as you please to achieve a desired length for the daisy chain.

step 4 You’re almost done!
Once you have linked all of your daisies together, you must finish off the chain by connecting the first daisy to the last daisy. To do so, you must make a slit in the last daisy on the chain. But this time, instead of making the slit a half inch long, go for about an inch. This way you can link the original daisy through the slit.

“Daisy Bell”
“There is a flower within my warm heart,
Daisy, Daisy,
Planted one day by a glancing dart,
Planted by Daisy Bell.
Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it’s hard to tell,
But there are those that would share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do,
I’m half crazy all for the love of you.”

It is said that a real Daisy inspired the song: “Daisy” the Countess of Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard, one of the wealthiest and most desirable English women of the period. In her lifetime, she became a vegetarian, championed women’s education, and stood as a Labour (leftist/socialist) candidate. At one point, she was mistress of the Prince of Wales (subsequently Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1901–10).

So whether you are Driving Miss Daisy, enjoying a ‘flowery mead’ or making a daisy chain, enjoy your daisies! Whether he loves you, or loves you not.