Plant Hardy Mums in Spring Place them in well-drained soil in a sunny spot. They prefer a soil pH slightly on the acidic side, so performing a soil test will help you determine if you need to add an amendment to your soil to adjust the pH. Once planted, water once a week through fall.
Garden mums may be grown in containers, or planted in beds with existing shrubs and flowers. Flowers generally last about two or three weeks, depending on the outdoor temperatures and how far along the blooming process was when the plants were purchased.
Find a window that allows lots of sun in and be sure it gets at least four hours a day of direct sunlight. Keep the soil moist. Deadhead often for lasting blooms. Once your mums stop blooming, you can place them in the ground outdoors once the weather starts to warm. Most gardeners plant mums too late in the fall for the plants to survive over winter. Some of the mums may come back the next year if they are mulched.
The shallow-rooted mums that are planted late in fall while in full bud or flower just do not have enough time to establish before winter sets in. As much as you can give them. Mums will thrive in full sun conditions, given adequate moisture. About three hours of direct sunlight is about the minimum that will produce bushy plants and plenty of flowers. On average, garden mums will not start to set buds until the nights last about 10 hours long. Blooms follow in six to 10 weeks. You will have some buds on them by then, but don't worry.
They will grow back and your plant won't look dead in the middle. But if you buy hardy mums , you can get them to bloom year after year. Garden mums are short-day plants and initiate flower buds in response to an interaction of day length, temperature and plant age. Different mum varieties will come into flower at different times in fall, based primarily on their responses to day length. Early season varieties can be expected to come into flower in early to mid-September, mid-season varieties from middle to late September, late season varieties from late September to early October and season extenders from early to mid-October.
Most mums are purchased in late August through September. The best stage to purchase a garden mum is when the buds are just showing some color. Mums that are on special with fully open flowers are OK to buy, but be aware that they will not last as long in your garden. Depending on weather conditions and mum varieties, you can expect to get a good display of color for four to six weeks.
Save Pin FB More. Front porch with flowers and pumpkins and dog. Credit: Jay Wilde. Comments Add Comment. Back to story Comment on this project. Tell us what you think Thanks for adding your feedback. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. Should we trim them back? There's still some dead growth from last year.
In colder climates you need to store the mums in a dark cool place over the winter months. They need to go dormant. About once a month give them some water to keep the soil moist. In the spring plant them outside and you should see new growth starting. Your mums should have started to grow by now. You can dig them up and see if there is any growth showing from the roots. If not you need to replace them with new mums. I was given a potted mum as a hostess gift.
I live in Victoria, BC rainforest I have no sheltered areas to put it into the ground or pot-it rains too much and will kill it. Can I move my houseplant outdoors for sun on good days for hours in the morning and bring it in after that to keep it blooming and growing? That sounds like a good plan. If the mum gets pot-bound, you should switch it to another container. I kept deadheading them every other day, watered them, and kept them in full sun.
After cutting my last bloom, they are all now blooming again. I was going to cut them down to about 6 inches, put them on newspaper in my garage, and cover them with newspapers on top in a dark area while keeping them watered about once a week until I can plant them in the ground come spring.
But now that they are blooming again, should I wait to put them away in the garage when frost first appears on the ground? There are lots of opinions, based on experience, on overwintering because often something works once, but conditions—weather, plant environment, plant health, etc. So you have to protect them from cold but also avoid rotting the roots or crown by trapped excess moisture.
If you overwinter them in an unheated garage, insulate them with mulch heaped around put newspaper under, as palnned , keep the soil barely moist this si one of those variables noted above , watch for fungal problems. If heat builds up in the garage, vent it. DO NOT cut back the foliage. Be aware, too, that if the plants are a cold variety, you may have the best luck overwintering the plants in the ground with or without the pots.
Planting them, then heavily mulcing, will help to protect the roots. Do it as soon as you can. I live in the hamilton, ontario area and for the last 2 years l planted mums in my front yard in octobers. They came back both times and grew bigger. I live in Southern Alabama, near Pensacola, Florida. I'm getting and finding such conflicting information. Just yesterday we planned 20 mum's purchased at a big box store in a full-sun location.
Did we just make a huge mistake? We put a layer of mulch down after planting. But what do we do about frost if it comes? We are very South so it doesn't get all that cold here, no snow. Do we cover them for a light frost? A hard frost? Do we need to fertilize? How often do we water?
Should we prune? Should we add more mulch at some point? We have about inches now. This is a project in a small park around a flag for our church boy's Rangers Program.
I don't want to disappoint them if they all die right away! Thank you!! Mums grow best with full morning sun, at least hours daily. Water when the soil feels dry and add more mulch before your average first fall frost date. You can prune the mums in the late fall or in the spring. It's also adviced to pinch off the tops of stems in the spring to ecourage bushier growth and more flowers.
I live in Trenton, SC and I bought some mums on yesterday in pots from grocery store. My question is can I plant them in the ground or should I replant them in pots a littler larger that the pots they are in September 14, You can plant the mums in the ground or you can repot them if they seem potbound.
Depending of where you live the mums may not survive the winter if planted outdoors. I live in Monroe,Louisiana I just bought 9 mums all 1 gallon. When should I plant them and how much shade can they stand????
Thank you for this enlightening post! I find myself doing the same thing, wanting the feeling of fall flowers, but honestly, I also dislike the big box store varieties so I went online today, September, looking for mail order. Found out mail order are 3 inch pots and after having an inkling they wouldn't have time to puts roots down for winter, realized I should have planted them earlier too!!
Thanks for confirming that doubt. I want to invest and not lose pretty mail order varieties as the ones in the store re just blah and a round bush. Also, thanks for posting this picture of landscaping with mums. I don't often see landscaping with mums in residential areas, I mostly see pots straddling a porch and then in compost piles. I'll plan them in for spring and give them my yard to grow in year after year!
I am from el paso texas and I just bought a big autumn mum can I leave it in its own pot? I am putting it in my front porch when should I transplant it into bigger pot? Our winter aren't that bad when would it start drying up? Can I prevent it? Thank you. The mum will grow and bloom for a long time if you just give it enough water and don't let the soil dry out. After it has bloomed cut off the spent flowers to encourage more buds. There is no need to repot the plant this fall.
My friends are informing me that they will not last though till Oct 17th and that I will need to buy and replant some more in Oct. Is there any way that I can still salvage the ones I have now unitl Oct? Thye are abotu 2 weeks old since in the ground and ihave fertilized them? Mums generally bloom for a period of 6 to 8 weeks. If you pinch them, they may last longer. Whenever you see buds, pinch half of the new growth at the top of the shoot.
Every 2 to 4 weeks, pinch again. I live in Ontario Canada, gardening zone 5a. I planted them and within a week started to die. I left them, due to laziness and they've come back this yr with a vengeance,. The plants are about 5 times bigger and have hundreds of tiny buds, much smaller buds than the original ones. From what I have read , the smaller bud size may be because I didn't fertilize them in the spring.
I'm hoping they will develop and open up into flowers. Is it too late to feed them now, will it do any good?
If so, what should I use? Any advice would be appreciated. Hi Paula, The buds may grow bigger and you'll have a nice display of blooms come fall. Soluble fertilizers or can be mixed into water and fed to the mums about twice a month. Is it the ph level in the soil? What do I need to do to make them become white again? Thanks so much. This is normal and happens when the mum is aging. They are white in bloom and then move into pink and then purple.
Perhaps you could slow down the process by pinching? Otherwise, enjoy the show. I am a beginner gardner, living in western maryland, and is it possible being beginning of June to plant mum seeds in the near future and expect fall blooms?
Good question, Genie! Garden mums are almost always propagated by cuttings, not seed. You can order rooted cuttings from catalogs. For example: www. When it comes to mums, we buy fresh starter plants from the local nurseries each year. I had a beautiful, yellow, potted mum. Just yesterday I planted them in my garden. By 12pm today, ALL the flowers look sad and are looking at the ground! Am I supposed to cut these down to 4 inches?
Trim continuously starting now but not beyond July 4th? I've read so many conflicting things. I live in Northern Florida. I planned my mums in the ground right after fall. They have been growing like crazy. I've cut them back once already, but I've noticed it looks like I may have buds coming on Should I cut them back again or wait and see what happens.
I really want them to bloom in the fall like they're suppose to. Not sure what to do. In your area, it's best to wait until October or November to set Mums out in the garden so they last. Plant mums with tight flower buds so they last longer. I'm afraid you need to think of mums as a short-term investment, similar to cut flowers. You can usually get a second bloom though it won't be as full as the first. After the bloom fades, cut the stems back into the fuller portion of the plant.
Now spring is almost here and I want to start mums from seeds indoors and then transplant into bigger pots so I'll have plenty of blooming mums when September and October roll around. I live in New Hampshire, Zone 5A. When should I sow seeds indoors, when should I transplant into larger pots and put outside so they will be in full bloom from September through November? I bought garden mums in November and have had them in the house until now mid-December.
They are still blooming. What do I do to keep them alive over the winter so that I can put them out in the spring? I am curious I live in Nj. I ordered Mums a few months back and was told they would be sent out for planting season I figured I wouldn't get them until early spring. But low and behold, they sent them to me now.
They are bare root plants, very little at this time. So much so, that there is three of them in an 11 x 16 envelope. What should I do with them for this winter? Plant them? Store them? And how Pot them up in inch pots filled with good potting soil. Place in a west or south-facing window for the winter. Then plant outdoors in Spring.
I have some potted mums I bought this fall Can I plant my mums in the ground now after they are pretty much done blooming? Or at what point should I plant them for best chance of blooming again next fall and not dying.
I live in Kansas. I buy potted mums every year when they come out around end of September early October. I have planted them near end of October- fairly deep and I have left the potted plant out where it was placed and ignored it and planted in spring. Both ways have worked fine and year after year I have returning show of rainbows of mums.
This year my hubby cut the plants to only about 3 inches sticking out of the ground - I freeked and was sure I would not see my mums again - but back they are pretty as ever tho a little leggier than they use to be before he did that. I would definitely call them hardy mums : Now if the stores would please just get some new colors lol - always the same yellow, white, crimson, purple, or bronze - think i have some variables just from planting them all together - but still the same in color schemes.
My heart aches now that I just planted 3 beautiful Mums.
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