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 ...

The next section describes how to plant young asters in the garden, including plants you start yourself from seed. Asters are ...

For decades, Michaelmas daisies have also been known as starworts and, botanically, as asters, in reference to their star-like flowers and to the Titan Asteria, who wept on seeing a star-less sky.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was drawn to the audible thrum of insects on my late-flowering asters this week ... suitable for overseeding bare patches of lawn, the seed itself is likely to draw in other birds that see ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...