Leary, founder of The Dallas Garden School, shares her tips for making the most of the fall growing season in North Texas. It ...

Deer will avoid eating these beautiful, colorful perennial flowers in your yard because of their low nutritional value and ...

You will notice that some colors are “hot” and some are “cool” – your yellows are hot and work well with reds while you ...

Potted plants: The large-leaved aster (good for shade), the sun-loving, black-eyed susan and zigzag goldenrod (prefers shade but can tolerate sun) look wonderful in pots and pollinators adore them.

Asters are another daisy-like flower that make great companions for snapdragons. Like mums, asters are autumn bloomers, but their differences include a wider range of color for mums, and a wider range ...

There are many varieties of pink mums (Chrysanthemum spp.), including garden mums, cushion mums, button mums, spider mums, and others. From hot pink to pale pink, mums are long-blooming, sun-loving, ...

The aster family members that we actually call asters are perennials of the Symphyotrichum genus. They include more than 100 species native to North America, at least 14 of which are endemic to ...

Gardening This fall purple-bloomer is one of the showiest native asters yet: George’s Plant Pick of the Week Published: Oct. 19, 2024, 6:22 a.m.

Colchicums are not cheap but on the unexpected smile-o-meter, they rate about as high as you can get in the garden. Paul Cappiello is the executive director at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, 6220 Old ...

Asters (Symphyotrichum) are a diverse group of native plants with more than 30 different species, each growing wherever they are suited. Most grow in hot, dry conditions where little else takes root.

Even if you don’t pick them, they will create beautiful autumn colour to be enjoyed with fall asters and late-blooming heliopsis, like H. Autumn Gold.