Knowing how to deadhead mums can help prolong blooming and keep your plants looking their best all season long. Removing faded flowers (called deadheading) interrupts the plant's goal of making seeds.

Knowing when and how to deadhead mums can help prolong blooming and keep your plants looking their best all season long. Removing faded flowers (called deadheading) interrupts the plant's goal of ...

Keep potted mums thriving by giving them half a day of sun and watering them when the top soil dries. Many may toss their chrysanthemums once they've provided those first pops of autumn color. However ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

However, garden (or hardy) mums are, in fact, perennials that will overwinter if you care for them properly. And one of the ...

(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...

Jake Eastburn, Executive Producer for Paula Sands Live, has a green thumb and shares some of his knowledge about how to care for the ubiquitous, richly-colored blooms that symbolizes the fall season-- ...

Make sure mums don’t dry out. Water before they start to wilt. This is key, especially for mums in containers, which may need to be watered daily or twice a day in late summer heat. But don’t water ...