Dig a hole twice as wide as the pot, and place the plant in the hole so that the crown (where the roots meet the stems) are at ground level—and not any deeper! Backfill the soil, water, and mulch to ...

It’s late fall at Smith—the time of the chrysanthemum. Since the early 1900s, the college has been celebrating the many faces of Dendranthema x grandiflora with an annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show in ...

Despite it being “stick season” — the usually cold, gray time of year between fall foliage and the first snow — the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College is still in full bloom for ...

Every year, the Botanic Garden of Smith College Fall Chrysanthemum Show begins the first Saturday in November. But that tradition of mums, mums and more mums is about to end. The last free Fall Mum ...

I can never resist planting mums in the fall. My other flowers are fading, and here are these wonderful pops of color at the garden center. I usually end up buying a few mums for my front porch.