Chrysanthemums are enjoying a comeback. Hanging off the dahlia’s dazzling coat tails, they provide a cavalcade of colour right into autumn. But chrysanthemums have long been undervalued and misunderstood as garden plants and cut flowers. For years they were seen as either lurid bedding plants or time-consuming, glasshouse-grown exhibition blooms. And as cut flowers they were funeral stalwarts, or the ghastly plastic-wrapped bunches sold on garage forecourts.
“When I started Green and Gorgeous in 2008, I looked to chrysanthemums as late-blooming
