Dark Bronze Daisy Chrysanthemum

Other Names: Garden Mum, Korean Mum, Dendranthemum

Group/Class: Mammoth Mums

Description:

Showy, bronze-red, daisy-like flowers with gold centers, cover a mound of strong, flexible stems; blooms late in the season; adaptable to various conditions; best in full sun; spreading

Ornamental Features:

Dark Bronze Daisy Chrysanthemum is covered in stunning coppery-bronze daisy flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stems from early to late fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's fragrant ferny leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Dark Bronze Daisy Chrysanthemum is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Dark Bronze Daisy Chrysanthemum is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting
• Border Edging
• Groundcover

Plant Characteristics:

Dark Bronze Daisy Chrysanthemum will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.