Selecting native plants helps attract beneficial pollinators and other wildlife, conserve water, and prevent erosion. The New York aster is a low-maintenance North American native that adds a splash ...

Choosing the right size pot for aster variety is a primary consideration. Aster seeds require cold stratification for germination. Plant nursery seedlings six to eight weeks before heavy frost in ...

Move over, mums! There’s another beautiful autumn bloomer that belongs in your garden. Not only do asters look fabulous, but they also provide late season food for pollinators such as butterflies and ...

Every year, the fall-blooming asters and mums play a colorful trick on me. It's a plot. They wait until the weather cools and we've had a frost or two, and I am in the mulch-mode, determined that the ...