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Plant: Copper Coin Bronze Garden Mum
Garden Mum · Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Was $8.00
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
Copper Coin Bronze has rich orange flowers with bronze to chocolate center petals, nearly 2 inches across, with a high flower count, dark green foliage and strong, flexible stems. Plants grow about 14 to 24 inches tall and 20 to 36 inches wide. Plant in full sun and well-drained soil, with some afternoon shade in warmer locations; too much shade makes plants sprawl. Garden mums flower in autumn and overwinter outdoors easily in the South.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
Plant description
Copper Coin Bronze has rich orange flowers with bronze to chocolate center petals, nearly 2 inches across, with a high flower count, dark green foliage and strong, flexible stems. Plants grow about 14 to 24 inches tall and 20 to 36 inches wide. Plant in full sun and well-drained soil, with some afternoon shade in warmer locations; too much shade makes plants sprawl. Garden mums flower in autumn and overwinter outdoors easily in the South.
- Flowers
- Rich orange flowers with bronze to chocolate center petals, nearly 2 inches across.
- Foliage
- The leaves are alternate, lanceolate to ovate, 3 to 6 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide, with entire, lobed or serrate margins.
- Bark & stems
- The stems are green and erect, forming mounds.
- Pruning
- Pinch spring-planted mums by removing the top half inch to an inch of new growth about every four weeks once plants are 6 inches tall, stopping in early July to early August.
- Native range
- Asia
