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Plant: Hot Spot Bronze Garden Mum
Garden Mum · Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Was $8.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Hot Spot Bronze has large decorative flowers with orange-red center petals ringed in butterscotch, turning more yellow in high heat, on large, full mounds with strong stems and dark foliage. Plants grow about 15 to 20 inches tall. 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
Hot Spot Bronze has large decorative flowers with orange-red center petals ringed in butterscotch, turning more yellow in high heat, on large, full mounds with strong stems and dark foliage. Plants grow about 15 to 20 inches tall. 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 large, orange-red in the center ringed in butterscotch, turning more yellow in high heat. 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)
