Chrysanthemum dwarf

LATIN NAME: Chrysanthemum indicum

COMMON NAME: Dwarf Chrysanthemum

The chrysanthemum opens its neat, many-petalled heads in the low, rounded mounds, and the dark-green, deeply cut leaves fill the base of the plant. The compact, low, rounded, herbaceous plant carries the deeply cut, dark-green leaves and the neat, many-petalled, single or double flower heads in the warm golds, rusts, pinks and the whites through the late summer and the autumn, one of the fine, steady sights of the autumn border, drawing the bees. The flowers have a very long record as the fine, lasting cut flowers of the cool season, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the autumn garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The chrysanthemum is a historic subject of the plant science, and the many-petalled heads keep showing up in the work on the autumn flowers. The way the neat, many-petalled, single or double flower heads open through the late summer has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the autumn flowers, the cut-flower crops and the members of the daisy family. The deeply cut leaves and the low, rounded habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the chrysanthemum is a regular subject of the work on the many-petalled heads of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The chrysanthemum is a fine, steady plant of the autumn border and the cut-flower patch. The neat, many-petalled, single or double flower heads in the warm golds, rusts, pinks and the whites open through the late summer and the autumn, one of the fine, steady sights of the autumn border, drawing the bees, and the stems come to the vases as the fine, lasting cut flowers of the cool season. It is one of the fine choices for the autumn border, the pot and the study collection, and it has been written about in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the many-petalled heads and the very long history. It is a fine, steady plant of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained garden.

Give the young plants the deep, well-drained bed, and the heads will come in the first autumn.

To grow the chrysanthemum from seed, set the small, brown seeds a centimetre down in the tray of fine, gritty soil, keep the tray in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on steadily. With the sun and the deep, well-drained ground, the many-petalled heads will open through the autumn.

Uses: flower beds, potted plant, cut flower

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