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

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 ...

The family of fall-friendly flowers includes hardy annuals as well as biennials and perennials. Keep in mind that 25 degrees ...

Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts / Her head and blooms again." — Helen Hunt Jackson Our native flora is on its ...

Get answers to unexpected action in San Antonio's landscape, as well as lack of action from monarch butterflies in San ...

Include some fall favorites like pansies, asters and mums to containers and garden beds for instant color and food for ...

By Eddie Smith MSU Extension Service With their beautiful colors and massive amounts of blooms, chrysanthemums have always ...

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

A gardener’s work is never done! No matter the season, your location, or how you garden, there are four main categories of ...

They have cataloged natural life online and have developed board games and walking tours to help people deepen their ...

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 ...

Most asters are fall bloomers, and many species are quite hardy and sport flowers up to and even past the first frosts. Species such as aromatic aster, calico aster and frost aster are hanging on ...