What gardener could resist mums on sale for $.62?

[LariP]

Not this one!

We went to Lowes a couple days ago so I could get some potting soil to repot some plants I'm bringing inside for the winter. On the way into the garden section they has tons of mums ranging from almost $4.00 to over $20.00.
i commented that I wished we could find some on sale because although I have some almost ready to bloom that I would like a few more.
We got the dirt and turned around and saw a sign 75% off selected plants. Amazingly that included 4" mums that were actually VERY nice plants.

*Score*

So we bought 18 plants (all yellow) and I went home and planted them. Then just like Oliver I was hungry for more. Returned and bought 30 more! (4 white, rest yellow)

39 are in the front 8 in the back tiered garden and one in a pot on the side porch.

I had to pull out a bunch of gargantuan DustyMiller to make room in the tier garden

 

[BruceP]

48 mums.... on a whim!!!! She's sick I tell ya... sick sick sick!!!!
I Love that sicko,,,,

 

[RaRett]

I'm a gardener too! but I think I would of passed on that deal. Now if it were Pepper Plants, or Tomato Plants or Onion sets... it would of been a different story ! (I only plant what I can eat

 

[JeannieCO]

I just love your yard. Those mums make your yard pop with color.

 

[2BullyMama]

Simply gorgeous..... you have a beautiful garden!

 

[Zoey1974]

Beautiful!!

 

[kazzy220]

Wonderful .... I so can not wait until Linus stops eating stuff so that I can put flowers in my backyard!!

 

[Sherry]

GOSH DARN IT WOMAN !!!!!! did you leave any for anybody else? That one way to win most beautiful yard, buy all the plants I hope they are the hardy ones that come back every year. Follow the yeallow brick road. Good deal [MENTION=983]LariP[/MENTION]

 

[LariP]

GOSH DARN IT WOMAN !!!!!! did you leave any for anybody else? That one way to win most beautiful yard, buy all the plants I hope they are the hardy ones that come back every year. Follow the yeallow brick road. Good deal @LariP

I left them all the rust colored ones
it was Bruce's idea to line the sidewalk but I just put them a bit closer together than he originally laid out.

Hopefully they will survive, they are supposed to be tolerant to -20, but I have had limited success with mums in the past.
I think the mostly clay soil we have here isn't ideal for them.

 

[kazzy220]

I didn't know you could get hardy mums???? I thought as soon as the frost came it was bye-bye mums!!!

 

[Biogirl71]

Beautiful! I would have a hard time passing that up too....but as less of a flower gardener, I probably would have stopped at two. Definitely not 48! But they look amazing in your yard and couldn't have found a better home!

 

[cali baker]

Such a beautiful garden! You have inspired me to think about what I want to plant in my yard. So far I have some Hibiscus flowers and a Jasmine plant. Lari, whenever you're in So Cal, stop by and be my consultant, please!

 

[Sherry]

Oh yes Hardy Mums, sometimes called field mums. they come back every year, Pinch them back starting May until July 4 and you have a huge half sphere of tight blooms. I love the ones that have a spoon shaped petal too.

 

[LariP]

Oh yes Hardy Mums, sometimes called field mums. they come back every year, Pinch them back starting May until July 4 and you have a huge half sphere of tight blooms. I love the ones that have a spoon shaped petal too.

Pinch back before they bud out? I didn't know that!

 

[BruceP]

[MENTION=1714]Sherry[/MENTION]..... by pinch back do you mean I can lop their heads off with my electric hedge trimmer??? (we have a total of 72 mum plants)