As autumn’s crisp air settles in, gardens across the country are about to burst into a spectacular display of color. This ...

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

It is the familiar florists’ aster, with wiry stems that support long-lasting clouds of tiny white flowers: as good in the garden as it is in a vase. Asters were in their heyday at the beginning of ...

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

Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts / Her head and blooms again." — Helen Hunt Jackson Our native flora is on its last gasp. After a long spring, summer and fall full of the rich ...

Asters can tolerate occasional wet soil, so a rain garden is another possibility. * Care: Keep the soil damp the first season to establish the roots, then water is usually not needed. Scatter a ...

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 ...

Asters fill a special niche in the garden by extending the growing season through the fall. Their cheerful, abundant flowers will persist until hard frosts set in. And they step in to provide ...