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Chrysanthemum 'Bronze Elegans'

Hardy Mum

Plant Type:

SUN PERENNIALS

Chrysanthemum ‘Bronze Elegans’ – 'Bronze Elegans' is a lovely naturally dwarf selection with fully double bronzy brown flowers. This is an old-fashioned selection and not commonly available. It never needs early summer shearing to keep it compact. 'Bronze Beauty' grows to 10 inches or so in clumping habit and slowly spreads. Its unusual coloration fits right into a fall color scheme. 'Bronze Elegans' was found and selected as a branch sport off of another wonderful naturally dwarf mum, 'Mei-kyo'. 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. 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.


Height:

10 in

Colors:

Bronze / Brown

Zone:

3 to 7
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Item Description Price  
CHRYBREL Chrysanthemum 'Bronze Elegans' (3.5 inch Square Press Fit Pot Extra Deep – 1.52 pints / 720 ml.) $14.00


Characteristics and Attributes for Chrysanthemum 'Bronze Elegans'

Season of Interest (Flowering)

  • Autumn

Season of Interest (Foliage)

  • Spring / Summer / Autumn

Nature Attraction

  • Honey Bees & Native Bees
  • Butterflies

Light

  • Full Sun

Attributes

  • Border
  • Edging
  • Wildlife Garden
  • Massing
  • Natural Garden

Growth Rate in the Garden

  • Medium

Soil

  • Draining
  • Fertile
  • Average

Origins

  • Garden Origin

Propagated By

  • Cutting Grown

Genus Overview: Chrysanthemum

All of our mums are hardy in USDA zone 5. 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. 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. The heights given are flexible, determined by the conditions in which they are planted and if pruned. All of our cultivars are propagated by cuttings and are pot-grown.