An excellent alternative is to instead start fall flowering asters from seed. Asters generally refer not only to the stunning ...

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

Keep watered for the first season if rainfall is sparse. If planting aster seeds, plant after the first frost. These seeds need cold winter temperatures to germinate in the spring. New England ast ...

Poppies come in a number of different varieties. Despite their delicate-looking petals and foliage, they hold up well ...

The aromatic asters are still in bloom ... but songbirds are quite active in stocking their larders and fattening up on seeds and fruits before winter. Seeds, seedheads, fruits, and perennial ...

consider buying the seeds early and starting them indoors because they require a long growing season — 110 to 140 days. Gourds can be grown on the ground or trained to grow on a trellis or fence. Much ...

Before you start, it is essential to understand basics about plant physiology. For example, seeds are often genetically ... sunflowers and most floriferous asters are great candidates to collect ...

Asters play a major role in supporting native pollinators, and their flowers are mobbed by myriad bees, flies, wasps and other nectar seekers. After they go to seed, birds relish the fruit.

KINGSTON — Fall is the ideal time to sow seeds of native plants, such as milkweed and asters, which are critical to the survival of bumblebees, butterflies, birds and other ...

They have cataloged natural life online and have developed board games and walking tours to help people deepen their ...

Nature: Monarch butterflies bring beauty to Columbus metro parks As always, the diverse cast of asters is prominent at the curtain call. Most asters are fall bloomers, and many species are quite ...