Northeast Gardening: Mums budding early?, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
It's not like a major crime, Candyce. So yours will bloom early and if they flop you'll cut them back and know better for next year. It's the kind of learning experience most of us learn by having gone through it. I don't pinch my mum, if that makes you feel better. I like to see it bloom and in the fall we like to go away so I'd never see it if I didn't allow it to bloom early.

My amaryllis bloomed in February. More welcome than in December.