If you plant the potted mums, that you buy from the grocery store,in your garden will they bloom the next season or will the frost and snow kill them?
2006-10-16 07:48:09 · 6 answers · asked by heather f 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You can trim off the spent flowers and plant them in the ground. I love it when a plant tells you it's time to prune it. Chrysanthemums(here in SoCal) start to look crappy just after Christmas. New growth appears from under the old growth. That's when it's time to cut off all the old growth leaving the new tender growth to take over.
You must pinch the new growth from Spring into Summer to get a bushy plant with lots of flowers. If you don't pinch, you'll get long floppy stems that want to break and hang to the ground.
Good luck :-)
2006-10-16 11:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by prillville 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should bloom just fine - when they start to come up next year - make sure to give them a good trim by the 4th of July and it will give it a nice shape by fall
2006-10-16 07:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by happygolucky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will bloom. I have always planted mine and they come back year after year. A lot of people don't know this and they throw them away. I plant them in bare spots where I need a little color.
2006-10-16 10:37:52 · answer #3 · answered by mrsreadalot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some are not hardy. If it says hardy on the tag it will make it. If it's a greenhouse mum they won't. If it doesn't have a tag to tell you, flip a coin.
2006-10-16 14:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by college kid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try letting it die back, and cut it back. When you see new growth, then water again and put some liquid fertilizer in the water. They take a rest period.
2016-05-22 06:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're perenials, so they'll come up again. mulch them well when the ground freezes.
2006-10-16 07:51:05 · answer #6 · answered by Magick Kitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋