I love mums in the fall! Every year it’s a challenge, however, to find the best ones without spending a fortune because I like to get a few different colors. It’s also a delicate balance between picking the correct time to buy and finding quality plants that will produce big blooms. Well, this year we achieved the trifecta and not at the place you’d expect. I got three 8″ mums from Meijer on September 25th for only $6 each.
I dropped the pots they came in into another larger pot with soil in it and I think this has kept them draining well (and I only water them occasionally).
Here’s what they looked like on October 6th.
Since then they’ve gotten fuller and are still looking good because I also brought them inside twice when there was a frost advisory.
Compare that to the big $18 mums our neighbor bought, never maintained, and now look like rotted death, which you’ll have to take my word for since I didn’t get a picture of them.