Once you learn how to grow chrysanthemums, you can have beautiful mums that last longer than store-bought ones.

Pruning after mid-July may keep your mums from blooming until so late in the fall that you hardly get time to enjoy them before frost kills the blooms.

After the last hard freeze of the spring, plant the mum in the warm soil or move the pot back outside. Trim the stems and foliage. The plant should begin showing growth within weeks.

As cut flowers, they can last weeks. Butterflies enjoy their nectar. The Clara Curtis mums thrive in well-drained soil, and are hardy through tough Ohio winters, reappearing in the spring. A little ...

Garden chrysanthemums thrive in borders, but mums grown in a humid greenhouse aren't ready for the great outdoors. If you're determined to add a potted mum to your garden, wait until spring. Until ...