Planting Mums?

Biftu · ‎02-05-2011

Do you plant your mums or just decorate with them in their pots in the garden? I've tried planting them in the past but they never came back the following year. I think they look better planted, but not sure it's worth the effort.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

@Biftu When I owned on Long Island, I had lots of planted mums as perennials, but where I am in the Florida tropics, I use pots for them.

Creek Street · ‎10-18-2017

I keep mine in pots and they come back every year.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

When I bought my house 23 years ago, there was a huge mound of mums in a bed in the back of the house. They were not attractive. Dad and I worked hard and eventually got rid if the whole big pile of them. I supposed somebody had planted their autumn plant.

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Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

My neighbor 2 planted and they bloom twice a year!

Her secret is neglect!

BlueFinch · ‎08-31-2019

I had a beautiful one in a large, heavy clay pot for probably six years, or so. It was full of blooms every year. It seemed to like my TX climate and the location of the pot.

It became sickly and eventually died, though. I'm sure it had to be root bound, but it was in a difficult pot to transplant. Maybe if it was in the ground in the same location, it would have survived.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

we have some planted around our lamppost that are coming back, but have not bloomed yet. patiently waiting..... they do seem to look like they will be nice and full.

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RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I'm in WV and leave them in their pots. We get to enjoy their color for September and most of October before they get frozen, and go out in the garbage.

KathyM23 · ‎11-20-2010

Most of our planting is in the front yard. Very proud of all of DH's hard, crreative work. So when planting mums, they are put in beautiful pots as there are many perennials for all seasons planted there is really no room left for perennials like the mums as we also want many annuals to leave space to plant every year.

As I stated in another post, at the end of the season, DH takes the mums out of the pots and plants them out back. Right now I am looking at 5 large mums planted out back from last year. This year they are huge and already colorful. Works well for us, mums used to be hardy and lately it is hit or miss if they come back yearly.