Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Dernier Soleil’

Chrysanthemum ‘Dernier Soleil’ is a compact, highly floriferous perennial that produces large yellow flowers tipped with coppery-orange hues all throughout the autumn season.

The leaves are low-growing, green and divided into rounded leaflets, resembling miniature oak leaves.

The flowers are a bright yellow with a touch of copper, salmon and orange hues that extend to the tips of the petals. The flowers actually shift color palettes as they bloom.

Drought tolerant and hardy, this perennial will bring some color and energy to your garden as the other plants begin to prepare for winter.

👨‍🌾GARDENING TIPS👨‍🌾: 

🌞 The active ingredient found in flower heads is called pyrethrum, and is a toxic compound that causes paralysis in insects. This is used in insecticides so you can infuse ho water with Chrysanthemum heads, let it cool and then spray your pests away! Alternatively, the flower heads can also be ground into a powder and sprinkled on a garden patch or windowbox that is giving you trouble – the pyrethrum should take care of them for you.

✂️ Cutting back the stems to 20cm from the ground in January promotes a strong reconstitution and multiplication of each Chrysanthemum when spring arrives.

The Tale:

The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek: χρυσός (chrysos) which means gold and ἄνθεμον (anthemon) which means flower.

It is a contentious genus as it used to include many other families within it (most notably Argyranthemum, Glebionis, Leucanthemopsis, Leucanthemum (daisies), Rhodanthemum, and Tanacetum (tansy)) but a ruling in 1999 by the International Botanical Congress separated the families out once and for all.

‘Dernier Soleil’ is a hybrid derived from crossing species native to East Asia and Siberia (C. zawadskii) – this means that it is particularly hardy.