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Fall Mums

For Best Survival Plant Your Fall Mums Early!

While you are busy thinking football, homecoming and autumn foliage also take time out for fall mums. Also known as chrysanthemums, the garden varieties now arriving at local garden centers are the first to open their yellow, bronze, lavender and red blossoms to decorate Michigan landscapes. One of the secrets to a long display of color is to purchase mums barely opening their buds. They can be displayed on the patio in pots or planted in a prepared planting site. If you use mums as a seasonal display that’s removed after flowering set the plants so they almost touch. Other wise space them six to eight inches apart.

If the mums are left in the ground they normally reflower during the late fall through spring months. Simply cut the old blossoms back into the foliage to encourage new growth and flowers.