I have seen mums for sale at my local garden center and would like some pointers on how best to grow them in my garden this fall. Garden mums (Dendranthema x grandiflora) are readily available in a ...

Trees covered in fiery leaves aren't the only plants that command attention once falls rolls in. As far as your garden is concerned, autumn is all about chrysanthemums—and for good reason. With tight, ...

When spring rolls around and you're happily strolling the aisles of lush greenery at your local garden center, the desire to buy every beautiful plant you lay your eyes on is real. Mums (Chrysanthemum ...

Dig a hole twice as wide as the pot, and place the plant in the hole so that the crown (where the roots meet the stems) are at ground level—and not any deeper! Backfill the soil, water, and mulch to ...

Store-bought mums aren’t bred for the ground—they’re less hardy and often grow tall and leggy. If planting, cut back, fertilize, water weekly, and mulch roots, but expect them to act like annuals. For ...

Mums bring new life to the fall garden and spruce up a front porch. All around Kentucky, garden centers offer many varieties of colorful blooms. Fewer daylight hours and longer nights trigger ...

Many gardeners purchase chrysanthemums in the fall assuming they're hardy, only to be disappointed the next spring when the much-loved plant doesn't reappear. Garden mums aren't reliably hardy across ...

Q. The beautiful mums in front of my condo that I started from a small indoor plant thrived and multiplied for more than 10 years. Every year after the blooms faded, they were cut down, and they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildly popular fall flowers, mums are low-maintenance and easy to grow. However, there are a few things that can trigger their ...

It was many decades ago that I scolded my son for cutting down a burning bush (Euonymus alatus) at the edge of our woodlot. That was before there was an awareness of the scope of non-native invasive ...