How to propagate spider mums…yes, you heard it here first…

We really, really want some of the larger, more fragile mums for the Japanese-garden pondside, and I have searched the web for spider mum or football mum *plants,* to no avail.

What I did find was the way to propagate them from a bouquet. It's really pretty simple. Get a watertight container and some sand. Fill container. Take longstemmed mum from bouquet and snip off the cut end, just to 'freshen' it, then cut off the flower, leaving about eight inches of stem and leaving 2-3 leaves on the...