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You bought that big container of mums and put them on your porch.  They look good.  Now, the tough part:  keeping them alive.  And keeping them from flopping wide open and splaying. First the 'keeping them alive' part.  It is pretty easy:  water them.  And, even better...'bottom water' them via a bucket or pan that they can sit-in.  Otherwise, drag your hose over there and keep 'em wet every few days.  If you're like me and you're dragging your hose around to try to eek out the final few dahlia blooms, then just stop at your mums and spray them down. As for the second part:  keeping them from splaying wide open?  That part is pretty easy too:  Wire them up.  Here's a post that I shared all the way back in 2017 that is popular every Fall: ProTip: Tie Up Your Mums .  Every Fall since then, we've done the same thing.  Buy the big set of Mums.  Use some twine or garden wire around the perimeter of the blooms to...

Because I've only included these red and yellow Collarette Dahlias (Variety is named Pooh, of course), in monoculture arrangements, I've mostly put them in other glasses, vases, jars that have one-inch-or-larger necks.   Because I had it out, I decided to stuff a bunch of Pooh Dahlia stems into a Bud vase.  It was very tight, but I like the way they are pulled together.   Pooh Collarette Dahlia