topic Re: Beautiful Mums in Garden

Beautiful Mums

Kachina624 — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:05:37 GMT

Today my sister and her friend ventured forth to Lancaster, Pa. for some shopping. They stopped at a roadside stand run by Mennonites near Churchtown, Pa to buy mums which she said were $5/pot. She gave me permission to post these pictures.

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Jtdmum — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:17:15 GMT

@Kachina624 gorgeous picture. I can only imagine what it must be in person.

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AuntG — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:22:34 GMT

I paid $8.50 for giant pots of mums from an Amish greenhouse and thought they were excellent values. Your picture is gorgeous.

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Carmie — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:05:14 GMT

They are beautiful pictures.. I hope everyone enjoyed their trip.

A bargain grocery store near me gets mums every year from a Lancaster grower. The pots are overly huge and they are only $3.99.

The problem is, they sell out within the hour they are received. I was there twice this past week and missed them. The first time I was there, they had three pots of the rust color left, which I don't care for.

They have the most beautiful poinsettias at Christmas time too.

I love the fall flowers, but it is depressing when Jack Frost comes into town and they are gone.

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SharkE — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:53:53 GMT

Nice shots !

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colliemom4 — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:32:22 GMT

@Kachina624 Those are gorgeous! I love mums. Thanks for posting the pics.

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GingerPeach — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 13:32:51 GMT

A sea of mums! So gorgeous, Please thank your sister for me.

The pictures remind me very much of Butchart Gardens.

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JYWilliams — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:48:07 GMT

So pretty. I really love those purple ones.

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1920712 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:14:24 GMT

@Kachina624 They are so beautiful. We have yet to purchase ours for the patio. The colors and variety are spectacular.

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jellyBEAN — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:59:16 GMT

Such a lovely picture. Question. The local home store is now selling mums. I live in a sub-tropical climate. I was told you can plant them in the ground here and they will come back as perennials so I was thinking of planting a few "mini" bunches of Mums in my little flower garden. Looks like as they grow, they have quite a large root system.

Does anyone plant mums and have them come back year after year w/summer and fall blooms? I'm willing to try.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:44:10 GMT

@jellyBEAN. When I moved into my house 20 years ago there was a huge bush if mums growing on the back wall. It was about 4ft wide, 3 ft tall. I wanted to plant something else there so dad and I pulled the whole bush out with a chain attached to his SUV.

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Nixmom — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:32:14 GMT

JellyBean, there are perennial mums and annual mums. Even my perennial ones sometimes don't make it through a tough Pennsylvania winter.

Many mums offered now are annuals. They're so pretty that they are worth planting even for one season! HTH

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itsmetoo — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:45:09 GMT

Oh, my, how beautiful!!

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jellyBEAN — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:20:47 GMT

@Kachina624 Holy Smokes!!! I can see some of the bigger Mum plants seem to have quite a large root system and would require a lot of digging (which I don't want to do) but to drag it out by a vehicle would be more than I could deal with. lol

The ones I'm thinking about are little mini's right now. Tag says to plant 3 together for a multi-color effect. Roots aren't too bad on the mini's. I will have to check to see if they are annuals or perennials. I woud like them to last at least 3-5 years, but would be cautious about letting them get too big.

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BunSnoop — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 21:56:46 GMT

Just beautiful!

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PA Mom-mom — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:13:12 GMT

@Kachina624 I just saw this post. Let me guess. That has to be Hoover's stand, on the right after Churchtown on Rt. 23. It looks like your sister got there on their "customer appreciation day." We couldn't get there that day, but I wish we had. I love Hoover's! Ask you sister if they had a lot of cement bird baths and statues in their parking lot. They are the closest Lancaster farm stand to our house in Montgomery County. It takes about 50 minutes to get there, but we go in the fall for groundcherries, cabbage, broccoli, and if we are lucky, romanesco:

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wismiss — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 04:45:48 GMT

PA Mom-mom: You mentioned ground cherries. I wonder if they are the same as my grandmother used to plant. They had husks that had to be removed and when ripe were a golden yellow. My grandmother used to make ground cherries preserves and ground cherries pies. They looked like this:

Is that the same thing you were speaking of? It's been YEARS since I have had any of these.

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SeaMaiden — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:17:25 GMT

are mums perenials?

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tedEbear — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:25:06 GMT

@jellyBEAN--------In our first home we planted mums in the front yard. DH and neighbor put a dog run in backyard 6months later, so Mums were dug up and moved to go around dog run. A year later took out dog run, put mums back in front yard. Soon we separated mums and spread them around. In California it is pretty easy to have same mums for years.

In Arizona we planted 1 plant (in the shade) and had it for 5yrs, year round. However it was only 1 foot high and about 3" around. Have fun, there are SOO many different kinds---------------tedEbear

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Lilysmom — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:05:26 GMT

Wow, amazing colour! Looks like a black et of vibrant color. LM