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By Marilyn Armstrong on 02/18/2021 • ( 7 )

FOTD – February 18 – Mums

I love mums. They are the flower that you plant in August and will bloom right through Thanksgiving — if you are a bit lucky with the weather. These are all mums I got in bouquets from Garry. I seem to have given up on my garden. The weeds have taken over full-time. I know they aren’t considered particularly special in how they are scented, but I love the way they smell.

Chrysanthemums

Blue chrysanthemum

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Categories: #Flowers, Blackstone Valley, Gardens

Tags: #FOTD, #Photography, Cee's Flower of the Day, chrysanthemums, Marilyn Armstrong

7 replies

Cee Neuner
02/18/2021 • 12:14

Marilyn your mums are gorgeous 😀

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  02/18/2021 • 17:56
  
  Thanks Cee. The bouquets were lovely too.
  
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Hammad Rais
02/18/2021 • 09:35

Wonderful captures 🙂

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  02/18/2021 • 17:57
  
  Thank you. My biggest problem is remembering to take the pictures before everything wilts 🙂
  
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Marilyn Armstrong
02/18/2021 • 00:54

I think they come in every possible color in the world 😀 It makes them a lot of fun to grow — or, in this case, buy.

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slmret
02/18/2021 • 00:28

You have some gorgeous colors among those mums!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  02/18/2021 • 17:56
  
  Some of them are dyed as they grow. They insert vegetable dye into the the pots so they turn out blue or bright pink or some other not-standard color. It’s why, if they regrow the next year, they will be white and the color will be gone. They do this with all flowers, these days, but especially to orchids, zinnias, and chrysanthemums. I don’t know how I feel about it. At least they aren’t doing any genetic changes.
  
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