Other Names:  Garden Mum, Korean Mum, Dendranthemum

Description:

Showy flowers with golden yellow, spoon shaped petals with fiery red tips stand out against upright mounded, green fragrant foliage; a perfect way to brighten up garden beds or borders; a stunning addition to autumnal bouquets

Ornamental Features

Matchsticks Chrysanthemum is smothered in stunning yellow daisy flowers with lemon yellow eyes and dark red tips at the ends of the stems from early to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its fragrant ferny leaves remain green in colour throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Matchsticks Chrysanthemum is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, 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.

Matchsticks Chrysanthemum is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Matchsticks Chrysanthemum will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. 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 particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.