If planting aster seeds, plant after the first frost. These seeds need cold winter temperatures to germinate in the spring.

Once temperatures warm up in the spring, the plants can put all their energy into blooms. And one nice bonus about ...

While you may want birds visiting your garden, there's an invasive weed species that could cause them to overstay their ...

and modern interpretations of the Japanese chrysanthemum at New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. All Korean chrysanthemums ...

Species such as aromatic aster, 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 ... striking is New England aster ...

What is better, starting seeds vs buying plants for the garden? Learn which crops to start from seeds and which can be transplanted right into the ground.

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Grow amazing alliums and learn how to plant onion bulbs at home. Starting onions from seed is easy; learn how to plant onion seeds and the best cultivars based on your growing zone.

New England’s last running coal-fired power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow, passed an emissions test over the summer that it struggled to complete for more than a year. But only one of its two ...

The vault already had about 1.3 million seed samples from about 7,000 species, sent from all over the world. Last week, it received about 30,000 new ones. The number itself is notable: It’s one ...