Chrysanthemum coronarium Seeds | Garland Chrysanthemum
LATIN NAME: Chrysanthemum coronarium
COMMON NAME: Garland Chrysanthemum
Plant Profile
Chrysanthemum coronarium, commonly known as Garland Chrysanthemum, is an annual in the daisy family. Garland chrysanthemum garlands upright, cool-season annual with deeply divided, aromatic leaves and many daisy-like flowers in soft yellows and whites with yellow centres that open through cool months, blooms garlanding leafy plants, small, ribbed achenes following. It likes sun, and rich, moist, well-drained soil. The ratio of effort to reward here is about as good as gardening gets.
Science & Biotechnology
Chrysanthemum coronarium sits in the daisy family, a group that keeps botanists, horticulturists and plant breeders busy with questions of classification, adaptation and ornamental potential. Edible young leaves of garland chrysanthemum give it a recognised place in research on leafy vegetable crops of daisy family, and coronarium species appears in studies of cool-season salad greens and leaf chemistry. From a research perspective, species of this kind are valuable material for work on propagation and on the selection of uniform lines.
Uses & Benefits
Garland Chrysanthemum brings genuine presence to the garden and earns its keep across the growing season. In cool kitchen garden, garland chrysanthemum garlands cool-season garden with leafy greens and yellow flowers. It grows well in rich, moist, well-drained, sunny ground. Sow seeds into fine, shallow drills of prepared bed, then cover them very lightly, keep bed cool and moist, and seedlings pop up within a week or two. Thereafter it wants only the ordinary attentions any garden plant receives.
Chrysanthemum flower, Ju Hua, is one of China’s great beverage herbs, brewed for cooling, eye-brightening teas, while the crown daisy leaves are a beloved vegetable and pyrethrum relatives gave us a major natural insecticide.
Growing from Seed
Garland Chrysanthemum is one of those generous plants that come along well from seed. Fill a pot with a light seed compost, sow evenly on the surface, cover thinly and stand it somewhere warm, bright and evenly moist. When the young plants are big enough to handle, space them into pots or a nursery row and let them size up before their final move.
Our Take
Garland Chrysanthemum earns its space through character rather than fuss. Moisture matters most while plants are young; established plants cope with far more.
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