Margaret, also called wood chrysanthemum, wood spring chrysanthemum, French chrysanthemum, is a plant in the family of Asteraceae, the genus of wood chrysanthemum, up to 1 meter high, with most of the branches lignified.

Margaret's propagation is mainly based on cuttings, and the common varieties include pink sprays, pink surprises, pink giants, pink monopetalous, large-flowered candies, large gooseberries, variegated, white hydrangeas, meteor 2010, lemons, and positively red candies.

Margaret breeding method

Margaret like cool growing environment, summer when the temperature exceeds 35 ℃ will cause leaf drop, to appropriate shade treatment, winter temperatures below 0 ℃ to indoor overwintering, the requirements of fertile and well-drained soil,

Margaret can choose loose and fertile, well-drained soil, you can also mix the black mountain soil, peat soil formulated as a Nutrient soil, usually planted when the bottom of the fertilizer, other times no longer fertilization.

Margaret likes light, need to be maintained in full sun, to maintain more than 4 hours of light per day, except for the hot summer need shade, the rest of the season full light maintenance to bloom well.

Watering

Margaret daily watering "see dry and wet, watering is watering through", summer temperatures over 35 ℃, the leaves withered into a semi-dormant state, you can reduce the appropriate watering, keep the potting soil moist can be.

Fertilizer

Margaret needs to change pots every year, change pots with enough base fertilizer and slow-release fertilizer, maintenance process of thin fertilizer, weekly application of dilute composite fertilizer liquid fertilizer, pre-flowering more phosphorus fertilizer.

Pruning method

Margaret more pruning and more centering in order to explode pots, every time the new branch grows six or seven leaves topped once, to promote the development of new branches, into the bud period to stop centering topped, margaret is a perennial herbaceous flowers, flowering branches will be lignified after maturity, every May, the beginning of the summer dormant period to be pruned, the ground more than 20cm of the flowering branches all cut off.

Margaret breeding notes

Margaret if you want to propagate, more recommended cuttings, because the success rate is very high, as long as you cut a section of its flowering branches, inserted into the soil, it is easy to survive.