Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Blooms, almost November, or other garden pretties?, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
SS--
Your Mum is called "Chrysanthemum Pacificum".

Yes, they DO sprawl--but you can pinch them back as they grow--
just like regular Mums. The pinchings can be rooted easily--
just stick them in small pots or anywhere in beds. Or--you can just let it spread out
These multiply by underground root-runners like many other plants.
You can pull sections off to move to another location or to propagate.

I have the huge clump of new England Aster. It is really big.
Just this year--here--someone mentioned that it can be pinched back
as it grows--I had never thought of that....
As it is--it is hard to keep upright in a nice clump. I have been tying it to stakes.

Both the Chrysanthemum and the Asters provide late fall blooms--when
nothing else is blooming.

Here is my big Mum. Is yours the same?