Recently their genus has been biologically reclassified to other genera, but aster is still the common name for all of them. No matter what color an aster flower is, though, it’s a great draw ...

Recently their genus has been biologically reclassified to other genera, but aster is still the common name for all of them. No matter what color an aster flower is, though, it’s a great draw ...

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

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

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 ...

But in fields and along roadsides, swaths of native asters add explosions of color to the transitioning landscape, with their golden centered, star-shaped flowers ranging from deep purple ...

Asters make good cut flowers ... which take on their fall-foliage color as ‘Grape Crush’ blooms. Eastern red cedar is a good native evergreen neighbor that also prefers full sun.