Growing more beauties for your bouquets

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Our late Heirloom Mums (October to November blooming) are dug up and stored unheated over the Winter. The mother plant won’t give us the best stems the next year so we root cuttings from them. We wake them up with sunlight and regular watering or as with this mild year they start growing on their own under our dark benches. To get cuttings from stems to root they must have mature stems. So mother plants are grown on until that happens. From there we have steps to prepare each cutting we’ll use. It’s a process that takes up late Winter early Spring time while we’re simultaneously germinating and growing seedlings. These are specific varieties grown as cut flowers with long stems for bouquets; beauties that last 2-3 weeks in a vase. The heirlooms that were grown before landscape garden Mums took over the market in the 1970’s. They are some of our favorites for sure. You’ll love them!!!