Pom Pom: Also called button mums, they appear compact and come in various colors. Spoon: Petite flowers (4-inch diameter) with spoon-shaped petals.

Mums come in yellow, white, purple, red and all hues in-between. As mentioned above, the options for flower shapes are like the icing on the cake.

Button mums have tiny flowers with small petals and produce a dense mound of color that is unaffected by the elements as the stems do not sprawl. Cushion mums have larger flowers but though bigger ...

Daisy mums are single, daisy-like flowers with yellow centers. Pompons and button mums have small, ball-shaped blooms and vegetatively are usually less than 18 inches tall.

Best Ways to Make Mums Flower for Longer If you want to make your fall mum blooms last longer, start as you mean to go on and choose a healthy-looking chrysanthemum plant with plenty of buds that ...

2 stems of orange mums 2 stems bronze or scarlet button mums 4-6 leatherleaf ferns (Note: You can use the flower combinations above or any of your favorites for this display.) Getting started: ...

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