Chrysanthemums
As far as I can see, the two countries in the world that grow the most chrysanthemums are Japan and Italy.Japan grows some spectacular mums, and my favorites are the cascading plants that can hang down 30 feet or more. Pretty amazing when one realizes that the plants are cut back to stubs every year and must grow all that length every year.
These big chrysanthemum waterfalls are amazing and have so many flowers that the green parts of the plants are all hidden.
Italy grows a whole lot of chrysanthemums too; both potted greenhouse varieties and long stemmed cutting garden types. Many of the millions of vegetable gardens in Italy will include a row of cutting chrysanthemums that get harvested at the end of October.
But while Japan and every other temperate climate country grows mums for decoration, Italian gardeners and nurseries grow chrysanthemums almost exclusively for placing in the cemeteries. Lots of countries (France, Poland, China, Japan) use white mums for funerals and grave decorations, but other colors are freely used as decorative garden plants.
Though I didn't know a carnation from a chrysanthemum, I wasn't nervous before starting a new job in Manhattan's flower district.
Most doctors will prescribe Elimite, a topical cream containing permethrin, a synthetic form of chrysanthemums classified by the Environmental Protection
