"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." By the time your summer annuals, perennials and shrubs are winding down in your garden, chrysanthemums-- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the type of ubiquitous fall mum typically sold at floral shops, supermarkets, and greenhouses. It is explicitly grown to ...

Buy mums later in the season and choose plants full of unopened buds so they bloom longer. Give them a sunny spot, frequent deep watering, and fresh soil in a larger pot or the ground. Florist mums ...

Mums are a cheerful flowering plant known for their autumnal appeal. While mums can be perennials, those sold in the autumn are meant to be grown as annuals. Make sure to give your mums plenty of ...

As summer winds down, you'll have noticed an uptick in the availability of pumpkins, gourds, and chrysanthemums (or mums) in garden centers, nurseries, or the box retailers you purchase from. And ...

When lake days turn to game days, thoughts turn to fall decor like porches lined with pumpkins and iconic mums (Chrysanthemum spp.) in shades of orange, purple, white, and yellow. Even if the days are ...

Chrysanthemums are hardy, herbaceous perennials that generally bloom in our area from October to December. (Katherine Frey for Washington Post ) Although temperatures are still regularly reaching the ...

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 ...

Inside a steamy greenhouse, it almost looks like fall. Rows and rows of racks holding green mounds, with a hint of yellow here and a touch of rust there, fill the space. Outside, rows of the mounds, ...

What’s blooming in your late August garden? Right now I have tall garden phlox, sedums starting, fall asters thinking about it, lemon verbena, blackberry lily, garlic chives, heliopsis and a few ...

If your landscape is not a blaze of autumn glory this week, then it may be time to kindle the fire with some fantastic fall plants. Halloween and fall decorating come in second only to Christmas for ...

Whether you display them on your porch beside your hand-picked pumpkins, or tuck them into your flower beds for some late season blooms, mums are classic plants that bring rich color to autumn gardens ...