DAISY DAYS: Hilarious misadventures involving unexpected twists including murder, drug running and an inheritance as newly retired Jack and Susie buy their ... (LYNNE & CHRISTOPHER GUMBLETON Book 1)

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Another event that honors this venerable flower is the Daisy Festival Outdoor Fest in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Gerard’s last recommendation for Daisies is sniffing the juice of the leaves and the roots to clear the head and shift mucus and clearing the eyes. When bees land on daisies, they look for the nectar and as they do so, they pick up pollen grains by the thousands. Our lives both before and after we met and married have been full of surprises, funny incidents, and bizarre situations.

While the Latin name is Compositae, the common name for the daisy comes from a phrase in Old English “Daes eage”, which translates to mean “day’s eye”. The genus, Bellis, could be either from the Latin for war, ‘bellum’, or from the Latin for beauty, ‘bellus’. Considered to be ‘tender perennials’, certain daisies are able to stay alive over the winter as long as they are in warmer climates. The petal-plucking game, 'He loves me; he loves me not', is thought to have started with the oxeye daisy, but is now a common children's activity using the ubiquitous common daisy.There are many superstitions about the cheerful little Daisy flowers that grow in our lawns, but their wound-healing properties are no longer in doubt. Oleanane-type triterpene saponins with collagen synthesis-promoting activity from the flowers of Bellis perennis, Phytochemistry, 116: 203-212. For instance, wild daisy tea can be used for a number of maladies, including cough, kidney problems, bronchitis, inflammation and problems with the liver. Therefore, the finding that Daisies contribute to collagen synthesis would explain why they have been used in wound healing.

However, the common daisy is a hardy evergreen able to flower all year, belongs to a large family which includes the medicinal echinacea, and is suitable for pots (giving a wild, rustic feel if allowed to over spill old metal or terracotta pots). It’s got four legs and a tail and is going to turn the couples’ lives upside down – what’s more - it isn’t even her birthday!One great way to enjoy and celebrate National Daisy Day would be to gift someone a large bouquet of daisies. Whether it’s a friend, favorite coworkers, spouse or neighbor, this is the day to brighten up someone’s life with some daisies. He loves me, he loves me not' is a familiar rhyme associated with what is probably our most well-known plant: the common daisy. Join Just Lift Fitness and Barre 3 for a balanced combination between strength and mobility, core and balance, ending with stretch and breath work. Whether it is a veil, a simple bridal headband, wedding tiara or a vintage headdress we are here to help you find your dream bridal accessories.

The last more unusual superstition associated with Daisies was that feeding a small puppy Daisy juice mixed with milk would prevent it from growing.

While it would likely be difficult to find a daisy festival that falls on National Daisy Day, it’s still a great time to make plans and mark that calendar to attend the festival later in the year. How wonderful it would be to invite all the characters in our books to a party and have a chat and let them get to know each other! A single stem arises carrying the flower head - this is not just one flower, but a composite of a number of tiny flowers which make up the yellow disc in the middle ('disc florets') and the surrounding white 'ray florets' (which look just like petals). What has kept us going through good times and bad has been our shared ironic sense of humour and strong self-belief that there will be a path through to better days. While some gardeners may have originally considered daisies to be a weed, it’s obvious that this flower offers much to the environment in the way of beauty as well as health.