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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Do you want beautiful winter paperwhites, but don't know where to start? Here, we run down how you can grow them indoors for ...

In place of all-green foliage, add a ground cover plant with white flowers to your yard, for a pop of color that will also ...

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

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

As the days grow shorter and colder, does your flower garden lose its vibrancy? Succession planting is a technique used by ...

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission honors the memory of fallen members of the former British Empire around the world. In ...