I grew the Alaska variety of Shasta Daisy from seed in late winter/early spring 2006. About 75% of the seeds germinated in my cold basement under plant lights. I planted six of the plants in the flower border on the side of my house in a mixture of compost and peat.
El Dorado Hills (EDH) is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) located in El Dorado County, California, 22 miles (35 km) east of the state capital of Sacramento. The population was 42,108 at the 2010 census, up from 18,016 at the 2000 census.
El Dorado, on its original site south of the present El Dorado, was first the county seat of Hunter county and later, upon its organization, of Irving county. The county, as it were, having slipped from under it, the location of the town remaining the same At this time Butler county extended only so far south as the fifth standard parallel. Chelsea was named as the county seat of Butler county by common consent of the settlers. This was upon the organization of the county in 1859, Chelsea remaining the county seat until 1864, after the county had been changed to its present boundaries. On May 21, 1864, an election was held, and El Dorado was selected as the county seat - (this was the old town on the Clarence King farm).