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If you have a lot of plants, use garden shears to top them.
When plants get crowded in two to three years, divide mums in spring and reset them about two feet apart. Cushion mums are best divided yearly. Mums like fertile soil. Mix rotted manure or fertilizer with the soil when you set the plants.
Shasta daisies are really a type of chrysanthemum. They do best in areas with cool summers and rich, moist, well-drained soil. Light shade is helpful in hot locations.
White blooms with yellow centers grace the plants in summer and fall. Remove spent flower heads to keep blossoms coming. Fall varieties can be kept bushy by pinching back or shearing as is done for other mums. This produces smaller flowers in greater number. Divide plants every other spring for best growth.
Fall blooming anemones, collectively known as Japanese anemones, put on their floral show from late summer until frost. Like early season anemones, Japanese anemones display a vivid profusion of mauve, rose, pink and white blossoms. Flowers are borne on leafless stalks 15 inches to 4 feet tall. Blooms last a long time on the plant, but flowers are unreliable as cut flowers.
Japanese anemones are hardy perennials. A light organic mulch such as shredded bark will protect the roots in cold areas in winter. In rich, sandy loam, anemones spread and can be used in naturalizing. In areas with heavier soil, they tend to remain in clumps.
Well-drained garden soil amended with peat or leafmold provides a satisfactory root environment. Plants prefer a slightly acid soil.
A sheltered location with filtered sunlight is ideal for Japanese anemones, but w here summers are cool, they can take full sun. Consider using them as border plants, in rock gardens, and in open soil near deciduous trees. The roots dislike being disturbed so the original site should be carefully chosen.
Dr. Diane Relf is a horticulture specialist with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and is a member of the faculty of Virginia Tech.
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