Most all of our color from flowers, presently, is coming from mums. Here it is almost time for hard frost and they are just getting into their prime of bloom. Cosmos are such an efficient flower to grow. They bloom most all summer and reseed themselves for next year's crop. In the one photo here they are still blooming along with some rust colored mums. They are even a better sight than the picture shows. "Mums Row" materialized from going back to the cemetery after Memorial Day and retrieving the mums we had put out for the holiday and then transplanting them in "Mums Row."
We don't do that at Oxford cemetery; it is too far to go back to retrieve the mums. But the cemeteries here want the flowers picked up after one week. So what we have transplanted came mostly at the largess of Clarine's deceased kin. Mums come back and bloom as perennials every year, but they are really only quite beautiful in the late fall of the year when they bloom.
We don't do that at Oxford cemetery; it is too far to go back to retrieve the mums. But the cemeteries here want the flowers picked up after one week. So what we have transplanted came mostly at the largess of Clarine's deceased kin. Mums come back and bloom as perennials every year, but they are really only quite beautiful in the late fall of the year when they bloom.
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