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

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

But with just a little bit of easy taming, they can be the showstoppers of a fall garden. Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose ...

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 ...

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 ...

It doesn’t exactly jive with the agaves, birds of paradise and Mondo grass we’ve come to expect from the typical Perth garden ...