Chrysanthemums were first cultivated in China back in the 15th Century.
Chrysanthemums were introduced into the Western world during the 17th Century by Swedish botanist Karl Linnaeus in 1753. It was he who coined the name 'Chrysanthemum' by combining the two Greek words 'chrysos' and 'anthemon' to mean 'gold flower'.
Scientific Name: Chrysanthemum
Family: Asteraceae
Availability: All year round
Chrysanthemum Branqueen Pink is multi-flowered variety featuring profuse sprays of light flowers throughout the autumn months. The multibranched stems are covered with masses of flowers which will really standout against the dark green foliage. Easy-to-grow and compact in habit, they are an excellent choice for your sunny borders or containers.
Chrysanthemum Branroyal purple is an easy-to-grow, autumn-flowering variety with the most beautiful purple blooms. Prolific flowering and compact in habit, they are perfect for creating bright-hued displays in your containers, hanging baskets and window boxes.
Chrysanthemum Branroyal purple is an easy-to-grow, autumn-flowering variety with the most beautiful purple blooms. Prolific flowering and compact in habit, they are perfect for creating bright-hued displays in your containers, hanging baskets and window boxes.
Chrysanthemum Branspice will provide invaluable autumn colour to all aspects of your garden with their eye-catching bright orange blooms. Compact in habit, they are a particularly good choice for container gardening as well as at the front of your garden borders.
Chrysanthemum Branspice will provide invaluable autumn colour to all aspects of your garden with their eye-catching bright orange blooms. Compact in habit, they are a particularly good choice for container gardening as well as at the front of your garden borders.
Subtle autumnal shades harmonise with striking, bold colours in this outstanding chrysanthemum collection. A bold combination of tall, half hardy varieties with reflexed and incurved petals, mixed with lower growing, hardy chrysanthemums that form neat mounds of colour.
Incredibly easy to grow, these hardy annual chrysanthemums are also incredibly pretty and unusual, creating quite an impact in summer borders.
An easy to grow showy annual with unusual tricolour flowers, where each white bloom has an intriguing inner yellow halo surrounding a central darker cushion. Perfect for adding height and interest to borders, as well as making a long lasting cut flower
Vibrant single blooms burst into a delightful range of fiery shades of red, orange and apricot. Easy to grow for brightening your borders or vases indoors from early summer through to the first frosts
Add instant impact to your garden with these beautiful chrysanthemums. When other plants are fading, their vibrant blooms are just beginning! These long lasting chrysanthemum flowers in red, pink, yellow and white make flamboyant displays for vases and bouquets. Supplied in 2 litre pots.
Neat dome shaped plants with ferny foliage and 1-1.5 in gorgeous primrose 'buttonswith a golden eye. Flowers summer. Height 30-45cm (12-18in).
Garden Bloom Chrysanthemums bear a single large flower rather than the multiple flowers that Spray types produce. These are really fashionable with top florists and command very high prices per stem, so if you grow your own you can have a magnificent display indoors and out and also save a small fortune! Throughout the growing season, remove the side shoots on a fortnightly basis (these are the little growths between the leaves and the stem) as this directs all of the energy in to the single large top flower. They bloom from September to October, so they make a perfect companion to the spray chrysanthemums, with each plant giving you approximately 3-4 stems of cut-able flowers. They are ready to cut as soon as you see the first sign of colour appearing and when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6') from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. Support them throughout the growing season with a strong bamboo cane per plant. Although a little more work is involved in growing Bloom Chrysanthemums, the quality and impact of the flowers will more than repay you for your effort!