I live in Michigan (cold, hard winters) and love to use store bought mums in my outdoor planters in the fall. I leave the mums in their original containers so they are easy to take out of my planters. The crazy thing is, I always try to remember to plant these mums in the garden after they have lived their PLANTER life in November, to have garden mums the following year. They always come back! Last year, we had an early snow and I never had a chance to plant those mums. I set the pots behind some bushes and forgot about them. SURPRISE, they all survived the winter. I kept them watered this past spring and summer and they are now loaded with buds, ready to bloom!
I live in Michigan (cold, hard winters) and love to use store bought mums in my outdoor planters in the fall. I leave the mums in their original containers so they are easy to take out of my planters. The crazy thing is, I always try to remember to plant these mums in the garden after they have lived their PLANTER life in November, to have garden mums the following year. They always come back! Last year, we had an early snow and I never had a chance to plant those mums. I set the pots behind some bushes and forgot about them. SURPRISE, they all survived the winter. I kept them watered this past spring and summer and they are now loaded with buds, ready to bloom!