Chrysanthemum ‘Venus’ – 'Venus' has won our hearts with its pink/white blend on flowers 2” to 2.5” in diameter maturing white infused with pink. Flowers exhibit some extra petals though it’s not a true double. The foliage is dark green and handsome, attractively cut on this cultivar, very much like ‘Hillside Sheffield Pink’. Ours is surprisingly content in a fair amount of open shade but would undoubtedly be happier in more sun. Spring planting recommended. 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.