Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts / Her head and blooms again." — Helen Hunt Jackson Our native flora is on its ...

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

"Just planted some today! Hope it gets to where yours is." Gardener shares photo of plant with surprising feature spreading ...

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 ...

The family of fall-friendly flowers includes hardy annuals as well as biennials and perennials. Keep in mind that 25 degrees ...

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 ...

While you may want birds visiting your garden, there's an invasive weed species that could cause them to overstay their ...

The autumn season is a time of shorter days and cooler temperatures. The landscape has been transformed into a palette of ...

As autumn begins, many garden flowers show the ravages of a long, often brutal summer. However, it’s at this time that ...

Nature at the Red Oak Rain Garden celebrates autumn with the bright purples of blooming aster flowers, a mosaic of tree ...

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