The Dead Mum Dilemma

If you look at my containers right now , you ’d be embarrassed for me . Yes , alas , they are still filled with dead or dying ma . I ’m fairly certain the FedEx man — who knows what I do for a livelihood — shook his head in disgust while pitch a bundle to my room access yesterday . I keep meaning to spruce them up , but I become paralytic by what I should do . Surely it ’s too other for holiday greens and offset of cherry-red Chuck Berry . But it seems too later to simply stick a pumpkin in them and call it a “ late fall tone . ”

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– Danielle Sherry , executive editor

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Everyone loves a tight, compact mum. Fall chrysanthemums are often sprayed with hormone suppressants, which is why in the nursery they look like clipped little balls. Next year in the garden they will likely be larger and more gangly.