If you have harsh winters, it would be helpful to mulch them. Also don't prune them in the fall, just cut back dead stems in the spring. They need water in the fall also before they go into dormancy for the winter. Good luck! Mums are so pretty!
Me too! my mums purchased at big box hardware stores don't seem to care to return, I think some mums are meant for one season and labeled that way annual, other varieties —do come back. I wonder if the disposable ones are more common- to encourage repurchase and profit as a marrketung strategy?
Vi...I was going to say the same thing.....the ones I get at the big box stores in the spring are one season only mums. There are mums that come up year to year and are heartier but think they have to be purchased at a plant nursery. I have had both and I live in the cold winter midwest.
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Maybe this will help you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmdBRo1ZrsU
If you are living in a colder winter climate then mums do not survive the colder weather.
If you have harsh winters, it would be helpful to mulch them. Also don't prune them in the fall, just cut back dead stems in the spring. They need water in the fall also before they go into dormancy for the winter. Good luck! Mums are so pretty!
Hello Rob,
Me too! my mums purchased at big box hardware stores don't seem to care to return, I think some mums are meant for one season and labeled that way annual, other varieties —do come back. I wonder if the disposable ones are more common- to encourage repurchase and profit as a marrketung strategy?
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/overwinter-fall-mums-indoors-71457.html
Vi...I was going to say the same thing.....the ones I get at the big box stores in the spring are one season only mums. There are mums that come up year to year and are heartier but think they have to be purchased at a plant nursery. I have had both and I live in the cold winter midwest.
Yep, me too. Try getting your mums from a nursery and talking to personnel there. Good luck.