Annual Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum multicaule. ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE).
Planting and Growing Annual Chrysanthemum
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow annual chrysanthemum in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of annual chrysanthemum
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for annual chrysanthemum
- Season of bloom and planting time for annual chrysanthemum
- When, how deep, and where to plant annual chrysanthemum
- How to plant annual chrysanthemum
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of annual chrysanthemum
- Landscape and container uses of annual chrysanthemum
- Comments about annual chrysanthemum and its features
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Growing Annual Chrysanthemum
Many cultivars of low and mat-forming, fleshy annual herbs, to 1 ft. (30 cm) tall. Smooth, bright green, oval or spoon-shaped, succulent, usually coarsely toothed or feathery leaves, to 3 n. (75 mm) long.>
Common cultivars include Chrysanthemum multicaule ‘Autumn Glory’, ‘Primrose Gem’, ‘Rainbow Mixed’, and ‘Yellow Buttons’.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many showy, gold, yellow, daisylike flowers, to 2-1/2-in. (63-mm) wide, with buttonlike, gold, yellow centers, in summer–autumn.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 4–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil. Fertility: Rich–average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full sun to partial shade, 1–2 ft. (30–60 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed. Plant successions to prolong bloom.
Proper Care
Moderate. Keep evenly moist. Fertilize monthly. Pinch early foliage shoots to shape, again on mature plants to maintain dense foliage. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for beds, containers, edgings, ground covers in cottage, formal, rock, small-space gardens. Good for cutting. Aphid, midge and rust susceptible.