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Wednesday, 27 September 2017

COMPACT CHRYSANTHEMUMS (POT MUMS)

I drove over to the RHS at Harlow Carr today and had a mooch around their shop and garden centre, like I often do.  They had some lovely plants for sale but my garden is packed out with perennials and I didn't dare buy more.  They had some (what I think are) chrysanthemums in pots which are the same type as a plant which I grow in my garden.  Annoyingly, seriously annoyingly, I couldn't find any record of my plant mentioned in my blog or even the label.  Possibly somewhere hidden amid all the penstemons and what have you, there is a stray a label.  Mine, which I grow in the sunny garden border, grows in a delightfully compact bouquet-shape.  I hope to divide it at some point in the next year or two and have more of them. 




Compact chrysanthemum plant in my sunny garden border - Sept 2017







Chrysanthemums in my garden - Sept 2017

I seem to have a fondness for bluish-pink and purple flowers. 




Below, pot grown chrysanthemums and cyclamen for sale at RHS garden centre, Harlow Carr, North Yorkshire - September 2017.