"Show mums" are a cold-hardy, late-season perennial showstopper in your garden that won't die off in the winter. As the summer season winds down, gardeners like myself start getting desperate to hang ...

Learn the tricks to making sure your mums will come back every year in containers or garden beds. A pot of big-blooming mums to decorate your porch in fall can be pricey. So you may be wondering, are ...

While many people buy mums to decorate their front porch in the fall, they often miss out on the opportunity to plant them in the ground to bring color every year. Garden mums, or Chrysanthemum x ...

Gardeners have a lot of hope. Whether we are putting seeds in the ground, dividing and transplanting an overcrowded decorative grass, planting bulbs in the late fall, or trying out some new garden ...

Have you ever tried planting hardy mums and had them fail to come back the following year? Fall mums are perennial flowers that can grow and bloom in your landscape year after year, if you handle them ...

If you are working with particularly cold climate, some horticulturists recommend over-winterizing your mums by placing them ...

Protecting your mums from frost helps them stay colorful longer and ensures they return strong next season. Move container mums indoors before a freeze, or cover them overnight with boxes or blankets ...

You can almost set your annual clock to mums. It’s late August, which means that plastic pots of mums—or chrysanthemums—are starting to appear curbside in front of every nursery and hardware, grocery ...

Pruning mums helps them grow fuller with longer-lasting blooms. Pinch tips at 4–6 inches tall, again at 12 inches tall, and stop about 100 days before bloom. Deadhead spent flowers once blooming ...

Woman kneeling in flower garden with many different colors of mum flowers - Twentyseven/Getty Images The sight of mums in every grocery store and front porch marks the unofficial beginning of autumn.

Like pumpkins, chrysanthemums (mums for short) are a part of fall. Three types of mums are useful fall bloomers for different reasons. Many modern hybrid mums were bred by crossing Chrysanthemum ...

Add a burst of fresh color to the fall landscape with mums. This traditional fall flower is still a favorite of many. These fall beauties come in a wide range of colors and provide weeks of floral ...