dh came home with more plants. this time two chrys'. they need to go out in the garden but i'm unsure what they need...space? location? pruning? one has flowers still, the other is finished blooming. anyone here who has done this successfully? got any tips for planting and care of these? chilly in the south pacific (had three big storm right up the country in ten days and it is still showering off and off, gardens are soggggggggy, to say the least), j.
The whole front of my house is planted in mums. They get partial sun and are watered with a drip line twice a week with a small dose of liquid fertilizer in the drip. I dug in a lot of compost because we have pretty awful clay. Can't say if those are ideal conditions, but they grow like gangbusters so it can't be too bad.
If you cut off the flower heads after they bloom, they'll keep flowering a lot longer. I whack them back severely in late winter and they seem to grow better the next year.
A further thought -- my climate is a lot dryer and warmer in the summer than yours. You may need to err on the side of more sun.
They are a fall planting here in the high desert. (most of so cal. I think) 'Deadheading' flowers will definitely extend the blooms. Taria
Kathy Applebaum wrote:
Ag zone 5ish US, I have cushion mums in an area that gets 7-8 hours of sun daily, and tends to be just a bit damp. They are thriving. Daisy style chrysanthemums tend to need a slightly dryer spot than that IME, and most of them still want at least 6 hours of sun.
Cushions splay out a bit, so you want to give them between one and a half and two and a half feet between them. Figure on another foot if they are those humongous football mums.
They daisy flowered varieties can usually be clumped up pretty closely. There are so many different kinds of those that you would want to look them up to be sure though.
NightMist
yep, from the site Kathy showed me, i've come to the conclusion these are daisy type. one is yellow (still has some flowers on it), the other is unknown (has been totally deadheaded, lol). no idea what our 'zone' is here. being in mid pacific ocean might not mean a whole lot. :) i'm now thinking the front yard on west side of the house. there is both some open spots and some partially shaded spots. so i'll have to give it some thought. thanks for your knowledge, NM. cheers, j.
"NightMist" wrote...
"jeanne-nzlstar*" wrote:
Even here in the Northeast/Mid Atlantic (NJ) portion, I have mums out in the garden. Our temps range from below freezing to bouts of 90F plus. Here they need to be planted in full sun to really thrive. Pruning is essential. DH takes the weed whacker to them and just mows them down. Very successful and effective. Here they get pruned 2x / yr. - Mid May and Early July. Bloom time is Sept - Nov. They are absolutely stunning. I have one that started in a 1 quart pot and is now about 3 ft. by 3 ft. just a few years later. Ones that get less sun are definitely smaller.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with our front yard. After decades of promises the town installed curbs (no sidewalks on our side) and is repaving our street. It's been a nightmare to live with. But we came to the conclusion there was no reason to mow patches of grass about 4 ft. x 6 ft. on either side of the walk from the porch to the street so we're turning both sections into garden beds. DH just wants to make me crazy with gardening. I love it but these are going to be fairly large beds that I now have to figure out what to plant! Yikes.
Kim in NJ
was chatting with dh this morning about all you wrote. i was thinking of putting them under the trees in the front yard where they'd get sun maybe 5 hrs of the day. maybe i'll put them in full sun out the back instead. he said we'd not see them much out front anyhow so at least we agree on that, lol. now where exactly is tricky. we've got my coffee tree and some pomegranates that need to be put in the garden, they've all outgrown their pots. they need a lot of room to grow and our yard is sooooooo full of all sorts of plants. things grow here with no help at all. our temps in auckland are never below freezing (4C is the lowest i've ever seen in 30+yrs) and never go above 32C. we've in a rather nice climate here and for the most part you cant kill what you plant, lol.
we've now got 2 lemons, 2 lemonade, 1 dwarf mandarin orange, 1 tahitian LIME, 4 guava (red and yellow) (+1 in the front yard), blackberrys, raspberrys. along with roses here and there and various other bushes with and without flowers. tis getting crazy around here. finding room means we move things or dig'em out. this past few weeks dh has been digging up agapanthus galore (along with a few other plants) and giving them to one of his florists who has recently moved onto a bit of land and needs to landscape it. free for her and good for us to clean out the yard a bit. there is still heaps more to clear out. sigh... j.
"AuntK" wrote... Even here in the Northeast/Mid Atlantic (NJ) portion, I have mums out in the garden. Our temps range from below freezing to bouts of 90F plus. Here they need to be planted in full sun to really thrive. Pruning is essential. DH takes the weed whacker to them and just mows them down. Very successful and effective. Here they get pruned 2x / yr. - Mid May and Early July. Bloom time is Sept - Nov. They are absolutely stunning. I have one that started in a 1 quart pot and is now about 3 ft. by 3 ft. just a few years later. Ones that get less sun are definitely smaller.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with our front yard. After decades of promises the town installed curbs (no sidewalks on our side) and is repaving our street. It's been a nightmare to live with. But we came to the conclusion there was no reason to mow patches of grass about 4 ft. x 6 ft. on either side of the walk from the porch to the street so we're turning both sections into garden beds. DH just wants to make me crazy with gardening. I love it but these are going to be fairly large beds that I now have to figure out what to plant! Yikes.
Kim in NJ
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