E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Around them, other customers in the Daisy Marc Jacobs Tweet Shop were posing with daisies clenched in their teeth, weaved into their hair, or stuffed under the edges of their knit caps.
On a recent Saturday, in the back of a former art gallery in SoHo, Susie Park, a high-school teacher who was eight months pregnant, lay on a patch of fake grass strewn with real daisies, pretending to give birth to a basketball-size bottle of Marc Jacobs's Daisy perfume.
But the sun's shining, the daisies are out, the roses look terrifically healthy, and my rosebush payments are running out.
Were it in Britain, the wildflower meadow by my house would be charged with riotous assembly: self-heal, marjoram, borage, restharrow, oxeye daisies, mallows, clovers, poppies, vetches, astounding in their abundance and colour as hay-harvest approaches.
Pushing up daisies and warming radiators come to the same thing in the end.
Caked in earth were 500 gold bracelets, rings and necklaces set with precious stones; ancient cameos and intaglios; earrings dangling with bunches of amethyst grapes; long, dainty chains with links of enamelled daisies or roses; and fashionable brooches including an engaging enamelled lizard set with Colombian emeralds (pictured).The workmen had stumbled on the stock of a 17th-century goldsmith.
Out go the daffodils and ox-eye daisies, and in come tree ferns, cycads, bamboo, ornamental grasses and Japanese maple.
Why settle for pushing up daisies when you can push up a mighty oak?
Lupins (Lupinus), pasqueflowers (Anemone), and a large variety of daisies and low shrubs in the heather family are examples of the rich flora of smaller plants that grow beneath the trees and in meadows near the tree line.
(Because black-eyed Susans, which are Maryland's state flower, usually do not bloom until June or July, yellow daisies are used instead, with their centres hand-painted with black lacquer to mimic the flower).
These and other plants called daisies are distinguished by a flower composed of 15 to 30 white ray flowers surrounding a bright yellow disk flower.
