This month I want to highlight a late-blooming perennial, the aster. We have had asters in our garden for a while, but last ...

Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

Then, once all danger of frost has passed, your young aster plants should be ready to be hardened off and transplanted ...

Is this yellow aster? Several of my coneflowers just had brown cones; they didn’t bloom. Can I cut down the plants now or do ...

Plants tend to stay below 24 inches ... purity and precision. Aster flowers were considered to be sacred to Greek and Roman gods. The leaves were burned by ancient Greeks and Romans to ward ...

Species such as aromatic aster, calico aster and frost aster are hanging on as I write this, and I can see flowering specimens in my yard. The family of plants that asters belong to is generally ...

Much has been written about the value of including asters in your garden as a late-season source of food for pollinators. For this reason, I have included several in mine. However, there is one that ...

calico aster and frost aster are hanging on as I write this, and I can see flowering specimens in my yard. The family of plants that asters belong to is generally called the sunflower family ...