A favorite dwarf perennial aster, Woods Blue is an excellent selection for a position near the front of a border. During the late summer into fall, it is packed with blue flowers highlighted by a ...

About now, meadows are painted in the colors of wealth and royalty: gold and purple. Goldenrods create a lemony blanket, stippled with brilliant magenta explosions courtesy of the flowers of the New ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have been living in a blue haze. It has not been pre-planned, but I like it. It marks the end of the main ...

Looking for something different to plant this year? How about a tough native plant that produces pretty lavender-blue blooms? Stokes’ Aster is a good choice few people grow and fits right into most ...

With bright petals on daisy-like flowers, asters (Symphyotrichum spp.) are a popular addition to any garden. Known as a keystone species, asters serve as an important food source for pollinators in ...

A month ago, it was Goldenrods. They filled ditch banks and meadows everywhere. They were so plentiful that it seemed there was little room for anything else. Like fall garden Mums, Asters are ...

I can’t imagine September without goldenrods and asters, whose beautiful blooms I most associate with late summer and fall in Georgia. A September without them would be like early April without ...