Chrysanthemum

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Striking flowers attract butterflies to the garden. Wonderful cut for bouquets and lovely planted with ornamental grasses and asters. Exceptionally hardy and long-lived. Pinch in early June to keep plants compact and delay flowering, if desired.

Companion Plants

Gaura

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Gaura

Delicate flowers over a long season, a graceful filler for the garden or bouquet. Attractive massed or in informal gardens, with verbena, sedum, Jupiter's beard and ornamental grass. Tolerates drought, heat and humidity. Avoid wet soil in winter. Reseeds.

Maiden Grass

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Maiden Grass

An excellent grass for the garden or landscape, screening or at water's edge. Striking complement to large-leaved plants or combined with berrying shrubs and evergreens for winter effect. Lovely flower plumes, excellent cut or dried. Clump-forming.

Candytuft

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Candytuft

Profuse flowers on evergreen foliage are lovely cascading over stones, planted at garden's edge, or along walkways. Blooms attract butterflies. Makes a striking companion to spring-blooming perennials and bulbs. Shear after blooming for best appearance.

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Details

Common name

Chrysanthemum

Botanical name

Dendranthema (Chrysanthemum) zawadskii

Variety

Clara Curtis

Zone

USDA 5 - 9

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Bloom color

Pink

Bloom time

summer-fall

Light

sun

Height

30" (76 cm)

Habit

rounded

Water

weekly during dry spells

Feed

use all-purpose

Maintenance

pinch back for fuller appearance