Keeping Chrysanthemums Pruned Keeps Them Healthy
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By Harold Sink
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Chrysanthemums are a beautiful flower that can accent any garden or yard no matter what the color may be. Proper pruning of these will bring back larger and fuller foliage later in the season and following years.
The only tool you will ever need in pruning chrysanthemums is a pair of scissors. Do wear a gardening glove on the hand using the scissors, as this is a time consuming task. Start by dead-heading the chrysanthemums before they can bloom in the springtime.
Dead-heading is the procedure of cutting off buds of flowers before they have the chance to bloom. This encourages the plant to grow more stems, and thus growing fuller.
Chrysanthemums are just like any other plant as they will become diseased if they are exposed to water for any length of time. Similar to geraniums, chrysanthemums will also do better with watering at ground level.
With this in mind, trim off any low growing stems to keep these plants from catching diseases. You can shape them like other bushes as well when they aren’t blooming, but this excessive trimming may cause the plant to not grow any longer.
Keep your pruning to a minimum. Trimming off what is essential to this plant’s health is all that needs to be done.
Some gardeners plant their chrysanthemums close to each other to have a blanket effect of flowers in their gardens. This is find and all, but plants growing into each other can cause problems.
Should you be trying to do the same with your flowers, decide on which ones should be trimmed back and not growing into the others. This will give your garden a manicured look. It is also a healthy practice for any plant.
Some plants may have something on them that could cause nearby plants to become sick. This is why it is best to trim them just enough to prevent such a thing from happening.
It is easy to let time get away from you to find that your chrysanthemums are taking over the garden. A gardening schedule of when to prune, water, feed and mulch will be of great benefit to any new or seasoned gardener. Even us pros can forget the simplest of things.
Many of you may know of chrysanthemums and just mums. That is quite okay. We all have certain names for plants that are not used by everyone. Pruning your mums can be overwhelming at first, especially if you have many of them in your garden.
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Author Bio Box: Harold Sink
 32 years of gardening.
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