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 ...

BUT YOU SAY THERE ARE DIFFERENT MORE, AND IF YOU WANT TO GROW ASTERS IN YOUR GARDEN, THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF TYPES THAT YOU CAN GROW. AND FOR ALL TYPES OF CONDITIONS. SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT A ...

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 ...