Perennial Chrysanthemum 'Single Apricot'

Perennial Chrysanthemum - Single Apricot
Chrysanthemum syn. Dendranthemum 'Single Apricot'

🌱We managed to get our hands on these hard-to-find plants early in the season!

Effortless beauty! These outstanding fall bloomers with daisy-like pastel apricot petals and vibrant yellow centers provide color and attract butterflies when most things have finished for the season, around early-mid October for us here in WNC.

🦋'Single Apricot' Chrysanthemums are excellent for providing nectar for butterflies, and are incredibly - seriously - low maintenance. Keen eyes will recognize these in our Pollinator Garden, and at the garden bed at our exit.

🌸'Single Apricot' Chrysanthemum is also known as 'Sheffield Pink' and 'Hillside Sheffield Pink' - they can live and gently spread for many years. They are also known as Korean Mums, and are truly hardy.

Use these in Pollinator Gardens, Cottage Gardens, Cutting Flower Gardens and anywhere you want something beautiful but isn't too demanding. 

❤️RCN Staff Favorite - many of us have these classic flowers in our own gardens!

🦌Deer (and also rabbits) avoid these plants.

Full sun. Zone 5. 2'T x 3'W.

💚Plant Nerd: What's in a name? While common names of plants can be very confusing, the Latin, or scientific names of plants can occasionally be confusing as well, as plant scientists learn more and more about how plants are actually related to one another. These plants were once called 'Chrysanthemum', then they were moved to 'Dendranthemum', and now they're back to 'Chrysanthemum'. You may also find these plants called Dendranthema x morifolium or D. x grandiflorum or D. x koreanum! Add to that the confusion regarding how 'Single Apricot' is the same plant as 'Sheffield Pink' and 'Hillside Sheffield Pink'!  

Hopefully in this era of DNA and genetics they'll finally figure the names out for good, while the rest of us enjoy growing these fun and rewarding plants.