Chrysanthemum | Pooly's Champagne Chronicle Books Plants will gently self-sow

Plants will gently self-sow

Some gardeners pinch back every few weeks until January to encourage heavy autumn flowering

encouraging you to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours

It is an excellent choice for both the border and containers and really only requires the odd prune in early spring to tidy it up

Chrysanthemum | Pooly's Champagne Chronicle Books Plants will gently self-sowPooly's Champagne is an Autumn flowering type that has long stems, however flower size and stem length is actually determined on how you prune your plants. If you want single large flowers then you will need to pinch your plants out which means removing the growing tip. You will need to do this twice, in November and again in January to give around 4 stems per plant. Remove any other stems and keep the strongest four. Be sure to stake the plants as