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

But most of our asters remain common and conspicuous, at least locally. One of the most striking is New England aster, with ...

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 ...

calico aster and frost aster are hanging on as I write this, and I can see flowering specimens in my yard. The family of plants that asters belong to is generally called the sunflower family ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s slim new book, “The Serviceberry,” is a meditation on communing with nature and cultivating connections with one another.

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

‘Poollicht’, introduced by him in the early 1990s, is worth searching out for its ice-blue flowers and solid, open structure. These new introductions may no longer be called aster, but they and their ...

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Howdy folks. Welcome to another incredibly informative episode of The Garden Guy, where the experience of mind expansion ...

KINGSTON — Fall is the ideal time to sow seeds of native plants, such as milkweed and asters, which are critical to the survival of bumblebees, butterflies, birds and other ...