Gardening & Landscaping
dancergirl21
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
When to plant mums?
Hello - I am very new to gardening and potting flowers. I currently have our summer flowers out on our porch in pots. I'm wondering when is the right time to plant mums and how long do they typically last? I'm in Chicago, FWIW. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 95, but it could be snowing in a month. 
Re: When to plant mums?
I planted my first mums this last weekend. You can start now - whenever they start showing up for sale is when you can most often start planting. They will last until your first hard frost.
Snow in Sept. is pretty rare, and if it does, it'll be short lived. Your mums are likely to live near or past Halloween. Enjoy the mums!
I think all she was doing was indicating how CRAZY mother nature has been near the Chicago area this past year. I live in Chicago, too...one day (like today) it'll be 100 and a couple days later 60!
Anyway, mums really are great up until there's frost on the ground.