wowza
y'all have such beautiful mums and beautiful gardens--now I am embarrassed to show what's going on here
but here it is anyway
Matchsticks is a neat one; unfortunately I let the 'weeds' go and smothered mine with sunflowers and amaranth so I got about 10 blooms out of it this year
The old noid driveway mums...got these about 6-7 years ago when a neighbor was thinning his gardens and the only place I had to put them at the time was along the driveway (please excuse the other stuff and harsh light)
The pink one blooms early; my personal fave is the white spoon; and the tiny white-ish flowered thing just keeps going and going...
newer mums with names--all put in last fall when I went nuts and chopped down a bunch of trees and randomly threw some stuff in what was then open space
Michelle Gold; Babylon Bronze; Atomic Orange;
Rhumba--starts red then fades to a sort of terracotta blend
There is a reason I don't take many long range shots--I have trouble with backgrounds (junk, chainlink, neighbors, etc.,). Here I was trying to get a picture of the sage and my own jungle plus the neighbors houses was a problematic background so I just focused on it for some reason
weird picture but that big fleshy thing in the middle is Rhumba and MG is the big yellow to the right in the shade
White Bomb is a Dendranthema weyrichii cultivar and should be a lot lower growing groundcover type mum, but mine got shamefully tall and floppy
And my latest bloomer is just starting
‘Hillside Sheffield Pink’ is an impressive space filler that blooms until it freezes and keeps the pollinators fed. (I don't like it with the orange zinnias, but they are filling space and feeding the bugs this year too
)
