Thistles are a marvelous group of plants. Botanists place them all as members of the sunflower (or aster) family, which is a ...

All over North America, there are native asters growing in forests, along highways, in meadows, and in marshes. If you come across a tall or mid-sized hardy perennial plant with dainty little ...

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These late-blooming perennials are a keystone plant, providing beauty and food. Learn where to best plant them and how to ...

Asters can become the queen of your garden or balcony when most of the flowers and plants have already finished blooming.

As you may know, the Native Plant Society of Texas passionately advocates for the use of landscape trees, shrubs and other ...

Fall flowers are a valuable source of nectar and pollen for butterflies and other beneficial insects at a time when food ...

Put the dried flowers and stems in a sealed glass jar in a shady spot. Asters can repel many types of insects such as aphids, some beetles, cabbage loopers, mites, and squash bugs. Asters can also ...

Before the trees put on their colorful autumnal cloaks, the newly rewilded fields at my home turn to gold and purple.

A cool-season flower that can be set out in early spring, sweet alyssum fades in the summer heat, but its clusters of tiny ...

They are native plants that are considered herbaceous with many species blooming in the late summer throughout the fall. All aster flowers are compound flower heads made up of disc flowers (making ...