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 ...

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 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 ...