Ok, what a fantastic summer. The weather was hot, the skies were clear (most of the time), and the plants just grew and grew and grew. Add in the recent cool nights and what do you get?
Why...only one of the best crops ever of Homegrown Mums. This is such an awesome plant. Long lasting fall color, in rich & vivid hues that just make you dance.
Now even though the fall mums are just starting to show their color, now is absolutly the BEST time to plant them and have them survive the winters. These beauties will have almost 2 months to fully root in the ground. So if you have had issues of your mums not lasting in the past, it might simply be that they didn't have enough time to root into the ground.
But alas, don't NOT buy mums just because you are worried they wont survive. This can be used a fantastic Fall Annual Color display as well. Let's face it, by mid-September, those Geraniums and Petunias are looking pretty tired. So do what I do...rip out those tired spring annual flowers and put mums in simply for one fall color season.
Either way, whether you want them longterm or just 1 fall, Mums give your garden that pizazz in the fall. Don't forget Snow Angel Pansies and Purple Asters as well.
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