Garden Mum
Chrysanthemum x morifolium
The signature of fall: a tidy cushion smothered in flowers in every warm colour, just as the rest of the garden fades. Pinch the tips through early summer for a fuller mound, and divide it every year or two.
- Mature size
- 2 × 2 ft
- 0.6 × 0.6 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Sep–Oct
Garden Mum at its mature size
A mature Garden Mum grows to about 2 ft tall and 2 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, Clemson Extension.
Through the year
What Garden Mum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Nov–Apr
Dies back to a low crown over winter.
In leaf · May–Aug
Dense mound of small dark green leaves, no flowers.
In flower · Sep–Oct
Cushion covered in golden yellow pompon flowers.
Growing Garden Mum
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Fast growing
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid (Chinese species)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Garden Mum, that’s about 2 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Garden Mum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.