Longwood’s associate director of display design. This year's chrysanthemum × morifolium ‘Susono-no-Hikari’ has 1,366 yellow flowers. It's 12 feet wide, the widest grown at Longwood Gardens.

The Victorians also relied heavily on the color-coded meanings of floral gifts. So, for example, to a Victorian, a red chrysanthemum might have represented feelings of romantic love for a friend.