{"id":18842,"date":"2017-11-28T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18842"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:10:38","slug":"my-mistakes-with-chrysanthemums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/my-mistakes-with-chrysanthemums\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mistakes with Chrysanthemums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a plant is worth growing it is worth growing well and this applies no more so than to Chrysanthemums. I have said recently that Chrysanthemums will repay the gardeners attention with a productive crop of flowers for the home, show bench or garden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18836\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-013-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-013-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-013-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-013-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Practical Mistakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plant and forget will not work very well with most Chrysanthemums, they need some TLC. For several years I under performed by plonking new plants into situe and then leaving them alone to fend for themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Chrysanthemums growing in pots quickly become top heavy and are prone to being blow over. I lost may good stems by letting this happen. It taught me that the stems are brittle or at least prone to break where a new stem meets the main shoot.<\/li>\n<li>Failing to understand the variety left me treating low growing &#8216;mums&#8217; like large decorative varieties. A case of one size not fitting all.<\/li>\n<li>Once you get a good bloom do not get it wet &amp; soggy or it will rot from the head like the photograph above.<\/li>\n<li>Neither overcrowd nor grant too much space if you want a good display.<\/li>\n<li>I am renown for poor staking of plants including Chrysanthemums. It is worth the time and effort.<\/li>\n<li>Strongly growing plants are capable of surviving many pests so I do not spray. This year I have had enough vases full of flowers that some critters have been brought into the house. They left droppings, pollen beetle or other dross that a timely spray would have prevented.<\/li>\n<li>I planted several good plants in virtually neat horse manure. As it started to rot it fed the slugs and microbes not the Chrysanthemums.<\/li>\n<li>Even if I remember to stop\u00c2\u00a0 Chrysanthemums in time I usually forget to pinch out excess buds to encourage fewer but better blooms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18843 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-008-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-008-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-008-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-008-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chrysanth-singles-008-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a plant is worth growing it is worth growing well and this applies no more so than to Chrysanthemums. I have said recently that Chrysanthemums will repay the gardeners attention with a productive crop of flowers for the home, show bench or garden. My Practical Mistakes Plant and forget will not work very well with most Chrysanthemums, they need some TLC. For several years I under performed by plonking new plants into situe and then leaving them alone to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/my-mistakes-with-chrysanthemums\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}