Three years ago these started as a large pot bought at the grocery store. Three years ago ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) Last fall I planted them in the ground by one of the birdbaths and they really like where they are, it took two pictures to get them all photographed... Part of the now ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) Other part now ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden ) The color is a little faded now :'( In a few weeks I will be trimming them back so they will bloom again in the fall.
Those are truly :-D "AWESOME" :-D and you get them to bloom twice! I am going to have to try more asters again after seeing that display.
Those are really eye-catching Toni and are such a lovely colour too. Having them flowering twice in one year is certainly an added bonus.
Goodness gracious me! Those are great-looking flowers. They look really good now too. You really have a knack with plants, Toni.
The only other places I have seen a display of mums like that is at gardening shows Toni. Absolutely gorgeous
Thanks for the nice comments. I can't take credit for the large mum in the first picture, I bought it that way at the grocery store. It was too cumbersome to get out of it's pot to transplant so I just stuck it, pot and all, into another pot. Then transplanted it in the spring. It's been moved twice since then as it grew. I fell in love with Chrysanthemum's over 40 years ago while living in Lubbock, Tx. They used (and I guess they still do) Mums for landscaping everywhere, the highway department, businesses, all colors and it was gorgeous in the spring and again in the fall. Lubbock gave itself the title of "Chrysanthemum Capital of the World" because of it. I got my first plants from a road crew that was thinning out a bed in the highway median in front of where I worked.
