Having always been a flower child
I grow kiku, the Japanese name for chrysanthemum.
There's a lot to know about growing kiku, pronounced kikoo.
I first met kiku in Japan, where I saw the pattern on an obi I was being fitted for at Imatsu Restaurant in Nagaoka in Northern Honshu. And also in many motifs on pottery, some too ornate for my liking, still, I was interested in the large beautiful blossoms depicted. Or fan shaped gnomes, cascading mums carefully trained.
So 4 years ago I found a place to buy kiku, and have been doing it ever since, and the learning curve has been slow as I am rarely ever here to tend them in fall.
And they require tending.
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