As the days become chillier, it's tempting to go to the garden shop and purchase fall flowering plants to bring some autumn color to your yard. While these flowers can be gorgeous, they can also ...

The best aster varieties can be relied on to fill borders and pots with long-lasting color. Homes & Gardens. Best aster varieties – 10 beautiful options with colorful and striking blooms.

Don’t confuse them with the similarly-named, unrelated, larger and clear-winged lacewings, which are beneficial predators.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Asters are a native fall-blooming perennial that come in varied heights ...

"Aster" is Latin for "star," and the name is self-explanatory when you see the flower's fine petals radiating from its bright yellow eye. These plants are stars in another sense since they cover ...

Stokes’ aster’s fluffy daisy-like flowers are normally blue-lilac and, depending on the cultivar, can be an eye-catching 4 inches across. Other cultivars produce flowers in deep blue, rosy ...

A slightly different road recently led me to the background of another garden gem, ‘Radon’s Favorite’ aromatic aster (Aster oblongifolius.)One of my favorite garden asters for a very long ...

In fact, some garden plants just sit there, all through the season, waiting for just this time to put on their show. The native asters are at the head of that list. There are dozens of aster ...

Stokes' aster does best in zones 8 through 9A, full sun or part shade. These perennial flowers work well as beautiful addition to a wildflower, butterfly, perennial or cut flower garden.

DEAR JANET: What do you think is wrong with this coneflower? It just drooped and really isn't bouncing back. All the others are doing great.

Perennial plants may survive many years with the aster yellows phytoplasma and can serve as a source of the disease within the garden. The best way to deal with aster yellows is to remove infected ...