Question
My mums have now gone to seed.  What can I do to make them grow again? Will the dried seeds(planted)come back?
Thank you.
Marsha


Answer
You need to dead head them, by removing the dried seed heads.  Most mums are perennials and will come back again next year, if they are planted in the ground and mulched with Hay.  You can try and gather seeds from the spent blooms, but they might not have been pollinated or are not fully developed yet.  But either way you will want to prune the old blooms off and mulch around the base of the plant with Hay and it should come back for you again next year.  But, however, it will try to bloom late Spring or early summer, so you should keep trimming it back until mid-summer, to get it to bloom again in the fall, by removing the developing flower buds and this also helps keep it nice and bushy.  But some people just let them bloom whenever the plant chooses to and then just remove the spent blooms when it is done flowering.  You can try to grow the seeds, but the plant it self should come back from it's root system.




P.S.  You can not winter them over inside the house as a houseplant because they need the cold winter to go into a dormant state.