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 ...

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 ...

Species such as aromatic aster, calico aster and frost aster are hanging on as I write this, and I can see flowering ...

As the late summer yellows and purples of goldenrod and aster fade and hummingbirds wave good-bye to western New York, we ...

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 ...

What Is a Native Plant? Native plants are species that would naturally exist in an area without human introduction. They’ve ...

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

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

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

For flood-prone gardens, it's worth considering adding flood-tolerant plants, including carex, acorus, daylilies, marsh marigolds, lady smock and New England aster. A simple yet effective strategy to ...

Rob Cardillo The current scene is enlivened by native asters, including the smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) and the heart-leaved aster (Aster cordifolius), plus a hybrid called Twilight.