Key Lime' Garden Mum (Chrysanthemum)

(Garden Mum) Chrysanthemum 'Key Lime' will bring a unique color to your fall containers and borders.  'Key Lime' is a decorative mum, and its eye-catching, multi-hued chartreuse green color holds up throughout the season. It boasts a bounty of blooms on a well-branched, mounded plant.  It is an excellent addition to your window boxes and containers and will bring back life to your fading landscapes. It will also provide a late-season source of nectar for butterflies, so be sure to add some of these fall-blooming gems to your landscape.  Garden mums prefer full sun, but will tolerate light shade, especially in hotter climates.  They also need adequate amounts of water, so be sure to keep them moist.  They will thrive with a weekly application of a water soluble fertilizer when in bloom.  Although garden mums can be grown as a perennial depending on the hardiness zone they are located in, they do tend to perform as annuals in northern areas of the country.