Upper Midwest Gardening: Late summer / autumn blooms, 1 by jcoakley

jcoakley wrote:
Kayley, I put those mums in last fall not expecting them to return . . . needless to say I am pleased! I bought the morning glories already started. After I planted them, watered them well and pushed the mulch up around them, I read that they don't like being fussed over and NOT to mulch them. It was too late for the one, but the other one seems fine. I haven't watered it ever and I pushed all the mulch away from it. I'm hoping it'll reseed and cover my ugly chain-link.

Here's my 2 year old introducing himself to the scarecrow this morning . . .