Aster yellows disease: You may have heard of this bizarre condition, or, like me, perhaps you’ve seen it in your own garden but didn't realize it was a disease. The first time I saw Aster yellows on ...

The garden world is full of long and winding roads. Last June, on a trek up a mountain in the Bernese Alps, I stumbled on a flowering specimen of February daphne (Daphne mezereum), a delightful plant ...

Suddenly I can’t get enough of asters. Many of them get no respect, growing right under our noses, often aggressively. But with just a little bit of easy taming, they can be the showstoppers of a fall ...

Fall in the Kentucky garden can be a hard time of year. By the time September and October roll around, we’ve been through spring gully-washers and summer droughts. The early season fertilizers have ...

Tell me about Stokes’ aster, please. I remember my grandmother planting seeds and having the most wonderful mounds of blue flowers all summer. Now that I have my own house, I’d like to have them, too.

If you find a plant in your garden that seems to have a strange growth pattern, it may well have aster yellows disease. This disease was first identified on aster flowers, many years ago. The ...

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 ...

Perennial flowering plants are effortless and reliable. They return every year and come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. But when picking perennials, some people wonder if the daisy-like flowering ...

Fall does not have to mean the end of bright blooms in central Ohio; some late-flowering perennials are making their debut after a long summer in waiting. New England aster Purple Dome (Symphyotrichum ...