Second picking of incurved chrysanthemums. Grown from cuttings planted in July. Now the challenge is to over winter the plants!
(http://www.geocities.com/sanders_carr/chry1.jpg)
(http://www.geocities.com/sanders_carr/chry2.jpg)
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Beautiful plants and gorgeous colours, Sanders. I like chrysanths outside but cannot bear the scent inside as they were the one flower always used for wreaths when I was younger and I cannot smell them without thinking of funerals.
Sorry, perhaps I shouldn't have shared that :-\
I don't know why, but I've always considered chrysanthemums to be "a man's plant" !?!!! I can't see the fascination for them myself! I'm afraid I think along the same lines as you, Wicker chrysanthemums = funeral wreaths. :(
They have a strange scent, but their beauty more than makes up for that I think. Beautiful photos sanders :) Don't forget to enter them in the Autumn A4A flower & veg show. I have a photo to put on but mine pale into insignificance compared to yours :'( ;)
Pat
Strange that Wicker but they have the same effect on me.Although i grow them i cant bear to see them or smell them inside the house.
But beautiful flowers and bit of good photography Saunders.
Lovely :D
I have only happy associations with crysanthemums. They grew at my childhood home :)
Interesting to hear comments about wreaths and funerals. Not something I have associated them with in the past. Maybe I am lucky in that I have only ever attended 2 funerals in my 38 years on this planet.
I am simply trying them as I like the vibrant colours and they look to be a good way to have a reliabel supply of cut flowrers for the house in late autumn.
Jerry