A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2003 Mums changed colour

Hi I planted mums 4 yrs. ago the colour was reddish they come up the next 2 yrs. the same colour .....the next yr. they never come up at all and this year they come up but was white with yellow centers anyone know why they changed colours and will they come up next year the original colour .....thanks for any help.

Hi Lakedancer,
#1. Some plants revert back to their
original plants if they were hyberdized.
Weezie

hmmmm lots of reason why I guess thank-you so much for your reply ..

Lakedancer,
Stick around, someone else may have
an answer for you, like Bill, Papito,
Nikkal, any one of our gardeners may know,
I'm just taking' a guess!!

Weezie

What kind of plants do you grow??
Just curious!!

Hi I plant impatience, petunias ,geraniums ,sunflower dwarf & regular for my perenials I have tulips ,daffadils Lupins, phlox, Mums, Sedums , Hostas ,Pheones ,sandcherry bushes ,lilac trees ,snowball bush which I gonna try and turn into a tree ...lol I have freinds up there that have a master garden at their home just beautiful they are always giving me some new plants to have .... so some of them I don't know the name ...oh yes this year I want to get a BJ tree they are beautiful....

Okay lakedancer,
What's a BJ tree???

And with all those other flowers and plants
you'll fit in here nicely!
You grow alot!!!!

Hi well it has flowers on it that look very similar to a Hydrangea plant , but they grow in a pear shape very very pretty .... they grow to about 4-5 feet ....

Lakedancer -
First of all, welcome to the board!
I can't tell you exactly why your mums changed color (although I think Weezie's on the right track, esp. with the cross-pollination), but I know it happens, 'cause the same thing happened to me. Two years ago, I planted mums in 2 small beds on each side of the end of my driveway, in a pyramid shape, alternating white and burgundy. When they bloomed this past spring (in my zone they bloom at least twice a year) they were exactly like I planted them, altenating white and burgundy. When they came back into bloom this fall, they were all burgundy!


Nikkal

Lakedancer and Nikkal,
I had that happen with cone flowers, I had bought purple and white, planted them in the same bed,
but not even really next to each other, about 5 ft apart... had both colors two years, the third it the white patch came out pink..
I figured the dominance thing, one is a stronger
gene or when hyberdized, the stonger mamma plant
comes back through????

Bugged me when that happened, but I learned a
lesson, don't let the bees into your garden!
No just kidding, I love the bees, but
the lesson was, don't plant the same variety so close together next time!! plant one in front, one in back!!!
I have to do that with my columbines...
I knew they did that, because I read about it.

Weezie