Botanical name: Chrysanthemum x koreanum, Hillside Sheffield Pink (sometimes sold as Hillside,

Botanical name: Chrysanthemum x koreanum, Hillside Sheffield Pink (sometimes sold as Hillside, Hillside Sheffield, Sheffield Pink or Apricot mum)
Attributes: A very hardy, late-blooming perennial with lovely foliage all season and a dense mounded form. Its Indian Summer flowers are unscathed by frost and attract many of the season's last butterflies.
Bloom time: One of our latest blooming perennials, consistently blooming in mid- to late October.
Bloom color: Flowers are daisylike with apricot-pink petals surrounding a yellow center.
Culture: Plant this hardy mum in moist, well-drained soil. It requires full sun or only part shade and is very drought-tolerant once established. It is best planted in spring but can be successfully transplanted in the fall if it is well-watered and mulched so that it has a chance to root in before winter. Do not cut it off until early spring as its foliage helps protect the plant's crown through the winter. It spreads slowly into a large mass and also produces a few seedlings.
Landscaping tips: As one of the finest of late season perennials to continue color past our first frost date, Hillside Sheffield Pink is an important component to a continually blooming perennial border. Good companion plants include ornamental grasses, Pink Ice and Silver and Gold chrysanthemums; Purple Dome, Jindai and aromatic asters; showy goldenrod, Nekan pitchers sage, monkshood, gaillardias, Waterlily colchicum and hardy plumbago.
Cost: One-gallon container plants usually cost about $8.
Source: Powell Gardens