Chrysanthemum | Patricia Grace Kitchen towel The flowers buds as they

The flowers  buds as they open are tinged rosy pink and turn to blue

One of the many lovely bird visitors we get to our gardens here at Puriri Lane are Quail and here is a family - Mum

Also known as Michaelmas daisies

cottage gardens or naturalistic plantings

Geum rivale "Alba" has the daintiest creamy white nodding flowers over a very long period and it is oh so pretty

Chrysanthemum | Patricia Grace Kitchen towel The flowers buds as theyAward winning old variety Chrysanthemum Patricia Grace is a spider Chrysanthemum in an icing sugar pink colour. Disbudding will improve the size of the flowers you can simply leave sprays to develop. To disbud is the process of removing surplus buds on the stem of the plant as they appear so that the plant can put all of its energy into producing one rather than many flowers. Long vase life. Autumn flowering under decreasing day length. Chrysanthemums