OK, for nigh on 20 years now, every autumn, I buy some of those spectacular mums that are on sale everywhere, plant them, nurture them, light candles and offer up prayers and every spring, nothing. They either rot over the winter or send up some thin green shoots and then die. Just a mile down the road from me, a neighbor has 6 (SIX) magnificent huge clumps of wine-colored mums that come back every year, without fail, bigger and better all the time.
How in the heck do you grow mums as perennials?
I live in Pennsylvania, zone 6, with variable clay/loam soil.
