Have I killed my lovely new daisy plant? Please help (photos attached)

[newgarden722]

Hi all, I bought this lovely daisy plant about two months ago for my flowerbed. At the time it had about 30-40 daisies in full bloom. However, after planting, being a novice gardener I don’t think I watered it enough - after an initial soaking I probably gave it about 500ml to 1 litre of water per week. As you can see from the photos, it now has very few flowers remaining and I have just dead-headed dozens of dead ones. I’ve also given it a thorough soaking, using the entire contents of my very large watering can. Is there anything more I can do to revive it? I really love the plant and don’t want it to die!

No, leave it be now you've given it a good soaking. (It can be useful to poke your finger into the soil and see how deep the water goes - if it's been very dry, you sometimes find you think you've watered well, but a top 2cm of moist soil has dry soil underneath).

Plants have a strong will to live. Once it's recovered from the dry spell it should start putting out new flower buds.

It looks like a pink marguerite?

I’ll be honest, I’ve had a few white ones over the years and never got them to last more than a few weeks. They’re temperamental buggers. You have to dead head them relentlessly otherwise they throw a complete hissy fit and stop flowering.

Very pretty though they are, they are hard work!

Thanks both. Should I be giving it a good soaking every day now do you think? I really hope I can coax it back to good health - it was gorgeous when I first got it.

It's probably fine - I find that marguerites have a lot of flowers at once, then after deadheading there will be more come though maybe not as many as the first flush.