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Posted by Kathy Applebaum on August 4, 2008, 7:22 pm
> dh came home with more plants. this time two chrys'.
> they need to go out in the garden but i'm unsure what they need...space?
> location? pruning?
> one has flowers still, the other is finished blooming.
> anyone here who has done this successfully?
> got any tips for planting and care of these?
> chilly in the south pacific (had three big storm right up the country in
> ten days and it is still showering off and off, gardens are soggggggggy,
> to say the least),
> j.
The whole front of my house is planted in mums. They get partial sun and are
watered with a drip line twice a week with a small dose of liquid fertilizer
in the drip. I dug in a lot of compost because we have pretty awful clay.
Can't say if those are ideal conditions, but they grow like gangbusters so
it can't be too bad.
If you cut off the flower heads after they bloom, they'll keep flowering a
lot longer. I whack them back severely in late winter and they seem to grow
better the next year.
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Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
Queen of Fabric Tramps
mailto:KathyA@KayneyNOSPAMQuilting.com
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