As your summer blooms slowly fade, there's a stunning perennial with bright purple flowers that will add sparkle to your fall ...

I have always enjoyed learning the names of wild plants, birds and animals that I encounter. I own quite a few field guides to help me identify them and can usually figure out even some of the more ...

As the growing season winds down, the blooms of Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, commonly called New England aster, add their colors to those of the autumn leaves. “It brings the fall” was the name ...

Few things are more disheartening than spending days planning and planting a flower garden, only to have it decimated by deer within a night or two. Fortunately, there are some flowering plants that ...

Before the trees put on their colorful autumnal cloaks, the newly re-wilded fields at my home turn to gold and purple. New England American-aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) begins blooming in ...

Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy. What makes a flower a daisy? The child's daisy is a circle surrounded by ...

It looks a little like a climbing daisy, but it's blooming in September. What's going on? Meet Aster carolinianus, which pops out lavender starbursts in fall as it hugs a trellis or sprawls through ...

It looks a little like a climbing daisy, but it's blooming in September. What's going on? Meet Aster carolinianus , which pops out lavender starbursts in fall as it hugs a trellis or sprawls through ...

Though the calendar shows we still aren’t technically to autumn, September usually is the start of fall gardening. The arrival of potted chrysanthemums and asters signals fall. Overnight, garden ...