HRYSANTHEMUMS, or mums, as they are often known, are perennial members of the daisy family. At their simplest, the flowers are like huge daisies with a ring of long, flat, narrow petals in every colour but blue surrounding a button of tiny yellow petals.
From this simple start, many different flower forms have developed, most of which are based on those tiny yellow petals in the centre taking on the shape of the petals in the ring around the edge. The result is a range of double flowers of many different shapes.
Spectacular colour
Some make neat domes of colour that are ideal in pots, while others are grown as hardy perennials in flower gardens and mixed borders. Then
