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

When it comes to fall color, you’ve probably already planted autumn favorites such as mums and goldenrod. But if you haven’t ...

Autumn flowering plants like asters are a great way to add beauty and color to your landscape, especially as the temperatures ...

Fall aster is a tough little plant. It grows to 15 to 30 inches tall, but most professional landscape contractors shear it lightly one time in late spring to keep it at the shorter end of those ...

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

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 ...

Like most asters, ‘Grape Crush’ is a sun-lover that does best in damp, well-drained soil, although it’s a drought-tough plant, too, once established. A mass or cluster of them adds fall ...

Mums, as everyone calls them, are the flowers most commonly associated with the fall season. One day this week I stopped to look at some blooming asters as I drove around our bottom fields near ...

By Eddie Smith MSU Extension Service With their beautiful colors and massive amounts of blooms, chrysanthemums have always ...

RIGHT. SO THESE ARE GREAT ASTERS ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY’RE ONE OF THOSE FALL FLOWERING FLOWERS. AND THAT PROVIDES A LOT OF BENEFITS FOR, YOU KNOW, THOSE POLLINATORS AND THOSE THINGS LIKE BIRDS ...

New England asters (Symphotrichum novae-angliae) are native to the U.S. with small daisy-like flowers in various shades of purple, pink and blue. They have an upright form, reaching about 3 to 6 ...

Asters are one of the last perennial flowers to bloom in the landscape, providing color and texture well into late fall. They’re beautiful in cutting gardens or as part of a mixed border.