If you have salmon mums(plants), can they change color to yellow?

Question

Salmon colored mums changed to a yellow color, but there is still hints of salmon peeking through.

Answer 1

Some of the newer varieties of mums have this feature. It adds a little more interest to the mums to have them change colors. Plant breeders saw how popular this was with flowering ornamental fruit trees--blooming one color and changing to another. You'll probably see more of this in other plants as plant breeders are able to work it out.

Answer 2

Collegekid has a point... sometimes flowers are bred to be one color in bud, then a different color in bloom and then that flower fades to yet another shade. But I'm not sure that is what you're asking about.

Sometimes, mums after being in the ground for some seasons, the flowers seem to become a different color. That has to do with breeding as well. Environmental factors play a part in the color of the flower. In an ideal greenhouse environment they might be bright and vibrant (salmon), but as they acclimate to a less than ideal location (the garden), the flowers "wash out" in color. They become a more drab shade (yellowy) which is also a more natural color. This same sort of thing happens with German Iris (Iris germanica) as well.

It is sort of true that more aggressive plants planted with with less aggressive plants will over take the weaker one. With mums, however, if you stay within the similar hybrid line, you'll be fine mixing the colors.

I hope that this helps
Good luck-

Answer 3

depending on the soil type and the amount of sun light they will fade to yellow in time. also you should not plant 2 different colors beside each other, the dominate color will take over.