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Plant: Honeyblush Yellow Garden Mum
Garden Mum · Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Was $8.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
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More about this plant
Honeyblush Yellow has decorative flowers with fantastic bloom color and growth habit on dark green foliage. 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
Honeyblush Yellow has decorative flowers with fantastic bloom color and growth habit on dark green foliage. 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
- Flowers are yellow. Heads are dome-shaped, usually double or semidouble with many ray petals and hidden yellow disc flowers.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate leaves, ovate to lanceolate, pinnately lobed and toothed, 3 to 6 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide, with a grayish underside.
- Bark & stems
- Green, non-aromatic stems.
- Pruning
- Cut back or pinch back during spring and summer, with the last cut around mid-August, to encourage bushy growth and fall bloom. Divide every few years in spring.
- Native range
- Asia (China)
