Back to latest Flower of the Week

Hybrid  'Korean' chrysanthemums

All I know about this marvellous plant, the last of all to reach its climax in the border, is that when I acquired it thirty years ago (as an offcut dumped in a bin at a village fëte) the flowers were bronze. I'm not sure when they changed their mind, or how or why such a metamorphosis takes place.

It is comforting, though, to read Graham Stuart Thomas: "As one goes about the country in October and November one sees certain good, old, clump-forming hardy varieties in brown and yellow, pink and purple, which need to take their place in the autumn garden, but I have never been able to discover their names".

Back to previous Flower of the Week