Quackin Grass Nursery

Chrysanthemum "hardy yellow cushion" (ex: Mark Brand) - This came our way from Professor Mark Brand at UCONN. It is a hand-me-down from his mom's garden. With the barest touch of pink at its heart "hardy yellow cushion" is a lovely medium yellow - not a hard yellow. "Hardy yellow cushion" begins its bloom season in middle/late October with fully double flowers that are between 2.25 to 2.5 inches diameter. It may have once had a cultivar name but if so it is now lost in the annals of time. Thank you, Mark. All of our cultivars are propagated by cuttings and are pot-grown.

We strongly recommend spring planting in colder regions so that the plants will be well-established by the time cold weather arrives. Cut them back to a lower leaf axil by mid-July in the north, earlier farther south; doing so will result in better-branched plants on a more compact habit adorned with even more flowers at season’s end. But if you don’t, regardless, you’ll have multitudes of flowers on longer stems but possibly more decumbent plants. All of our mums will gradually ground cover into larger and larger mats. Plant all mums in full to part sun in fertile draining soil. Honeybees love them as this is one of the last flowering perennials to bloom in such abundance in the autumn in New England, along with some of the later asters.