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Halls of Heddon is a family run plant nursery, established 100 years ago. They started specialising from their early years in Dahlias and Chrysanthemums and now send Dahlia tubers world wide where the demand for new British raised varieties continues to grow. The fields at Heddon are a sight to see in late summer with over 10,000 plants in flower from late August until the first frosts.
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"The colourful flowerheads of chrysanthemums are bright and cheerful. These autumn-flowering herbaceous perennials are native to China, eastern Asia and north-eastern Europe. They have been cultivated for centuries in China and have become a commercially important group in the horticultural trade throughout much of the world, especially as cut flowers. There are now reported to be more than 20,000 cultivars, with 7,000 developed in China.

The flowerhead of a chrysanthemum is composed of multiple, tiny flowers (florets), the outer ones being ray florets and the inner ones being disc florets. Cultivated varieties have different colours, numbers, sizes and orientation of these florets to produce numerous different classes including pompon, spoon, quill, spider, reflexed and incurved."
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