Ok, my wife is on her second summer since retiring and wants to do garden things (bless her heart.) I try to teach her about plants, but she sometimes wants to do things differently (bless her heart.)
She likes daisies, so she bought a couple of nursery pots with Shasta Daisies in them. She wanted them on the front porch in a cedar container. So far, so good, not exactly the preferred amount of sun, but that's where she wanted them. She didn't want to take them out of the nursery pots, just let them sit in the cedar container as-is. She would take them out every now and them, water them, and put them back in the container (bless her heart.)
So to get to the problem, when they wilted and didn't look so good after about two or three weeks, she pruned off the heads and gave them to me to do something with. There is what looks like new growth at the bottom of the stems, but I'm not sure (see pics.) My question is, if that's new growth at the bottom, should I just prune the stems down farther, or just leave them be?
(I've since removed them from the nursery pots and put them in another cedar container with good potting soil and compost in a spot that gets full sun, bless my heart!)
