Christopher, I have Clara Curtis chrysanthemum. It's a thug, but real pretty when it finally blooms in October. It looks nice next to all sorts of grasses and fading perennials--I just can't have its pinky pink near the blue asters. In a few weeks the foliage will turn pretty shades of gold and rust after the blooms die. All summer the plant is an agreeable shrub-sized green mound that makes a nice backdrop for the summer blooms--and it thrived even in this brutally hot and very dry summer. Not at all the same creature as those neurasthenic yellow and orange balls!