Chrysanthemums will live outdoors in your garden, provided:
-you live where it's warm all year, OR
-you stick to 'garden' (or 'hardy') chrysanthemums that you buy at your local garden store. Their stock is tailored to your local conditions.
The 'florist' (or 'exhibition') chrysanthemums are specially bred for beauty, not hardiness. They need special care, such as staking, and can't take cold winters.
Some folks in West Texas say their weather varies from the low teens in winter to near one hundred degrees in the summer. They have chrysanthemum plants that they bought locally and planted outdoors three years ago and they keep coming back every year.
Chrysanthemums are a fall flower. They start growing in summer and should be pinched back to make a fuller bloom in the fall.
You should plant your chrysanthemums in early fall. Too late, they will not be able to produce roots that will help the plant survive the winter. However some keep them indoors for the winter.
Fuji chrysanthemums and spider chrysanthemums are the same flower. The botanic name is Dendranthema x grandiflorium.
Too much salt can kill plants including chrysanthemums.
Canna is a complete flower. The flower has both male and female sex organs. You do not need to buy both a "male" plant and "female" plant.
Chrysanthemums like slightly acid soil. 6.5 on the PH scale.
The chrysanthemums that florists use are annuals. However there are perennial chrysanthemums and as long as they are not planted too late in the year to develop a good root structure, they will survive the winter and bloom again.
Chrysanthemums can cost from $4 a plant to $15.
If you want your chrysanthemums to survive winter, you need to plant them in spring.
Tiger lilies and chrysanthemums are in two different plant families.
They are both plant and flower, chrysanthemums are flowering plants.
No, but cutting them back produces plants that have more stems and thus more flowers. Cutting also produces shorter plants that may have a more attractive round shape.
You can trim the plant back to about three inches and mulch the plant.
Plant Chrysanthemums in full sunlight.They respond best to the shorter days and longer nights of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
No, chrysanthemums are not really milkweeds. The flowering plant in question can be called a chrysanth or a mum for short, but never a milkweed. It is a member of the Asteroideae plant subfamily of asters whereas milkweeds belong in the Asclepiadoideae subfamily of milkweeds.
Yes, you should dead-head your chrysanthemums in the warmer seasons, and mulch them.
If you plant them in the spring, they will be perennials and last for many years. If you plant them in the fall, they will provide color for that fall only.
Chrysanthemums grow best when there is a lot of light available to them. They do best in fertile, sandy soil which should be well draining as they are susceptible to mildew.
It is best to shape the plant in spring and early summer.