Chrysanthemums

While the changing of the leaves heralds autumn in cooler regions, Florida gardeners need a little help bringing fall color to their yards. Chrysanthemums are the answer. These easy-to-care-for perennials can bring a burst of warm color to any garden or front porch.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Gardening Tips: Chrysanthemums
• Gardening Tips: Winter-Flowering Annuals
• Macrosiphoniella sanborni, Chrysanthemum Aphid
• Mum's the Word for Thanksgiving Color

UF/IFAS Publications

• Bedding Plants: Selection, Establishment and Maintenance
• Caring for Your Holiday Plants (PDF)
• Dendranthema x grandiflora Garden Mum, Garden Chrysanthemum
• Fall Perennials: Big, Beautiful, Tough as Nails (PDF)
• Plant Life Column: Chrysanthemums (PDF)
• Topics: Chrysanthemum Pest Management

Other Sites

• Chrysanthemums--Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service
• Chrysanthemum Disease and Insect Pests--Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service
• The Culture of Garden Chrysanthemums--Cornell Cooperative Extension