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Plant: Pumpkin Pie Orange Garden Mum
Garden Mum · Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Was $8.00
Size: 1 gal
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More about this plant
Pumpkin Pie Orange is prolific and uniform, with excellent orange color for fall decorating, and its flowers attract late-season pollinators. Plants grow about 14 to 30 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
Pumpkin Pie Orange is prolific and uniform, with excellent orange color for fall decorating, and its flowers attract late-season pollinators. Plants grow about 14 to 30 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
- A flower head with many peripheral petals of various shapes and colors.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate, lanceolate to ovate, 3 to 6 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide, pinnately lobed and toothed.
- Bark & stems
- Stems are green and not aromatic.
- Pruning
- Pinch the tip growth of spring-planted mums regularly to make them branch and bloom well, removing the top half inch to one inch of new growth about every four weeks from 6 inches tall. Stop in early July in the upper Piedmont and mountains or early August at the coast. NCSU adds that cutting back three times in spring and summer, the last around mid-August, keeps plants bushy.
- Native range
- Asia
