Aster
Michaelmas Daisies
We never tire of Aster’s cheerful daisy faces and the profusion of colors and sizes that make up this genus, from 6 ft. giants to tiny dwarf alpines. Our Asters, large and small, are tried and true performers in ordinary garden soil and full sun. Generally late summer bloomers, they provide lots of oomph when many perennials have petered out.
Aster lateriflorus ‘Bleke Bet’ (P-1303)
Each 10.75
Purchased when we were touring British nurseries nearly 20 years ago and sadly forgotten about, this peerless Aster recently grabbed our attention. Dashing, deep purple-infused green foliage and dense well-branched twiggy stems lift an exuberant profusion of small, rose-centered white daisies, whose fine-hewn petals mature with soft pink shades. Strong, tall and upstanding, seldom offered ‘Bleke Bet’ delivers late, long-lasting flowers plus refined texture, while escorting companions such as Eryngium yuccifolium and Calamagrostis ‘Cheju-Do’.
Blooms September–October
Size: 4' 0" – 4-1/2' high x 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Aster asperulus
- Aster ‘Bills Big Blue’
- Aster ‘Blue Autumn’
- Aster ‘Bridal Veil’
- Aster ‘Cassie’
- Aster ‘Coombe Fishacre’
- Aster cordifolius
- Aster cordifolius ‘Avondale’
- Aster cordifolius ‘Chieftain’
- Aster cordifolius ‘Little Carlow’
- Aster divaricatus
- Aster divaricatus ‘Beth Chatto’
- Aster ericoides hyb. ‘Ringdove’
- Aster ericoides ‘Golden Spray’
- Aster ericoides ‘Monte Cassino’
- Aster ericoides ‘Snow Flurry’
- Aster x frikartii ‘Monch’
- Aster x frikartii ‘Wunder von Stäfa’
- Aster laevis ‘Bluebird’
- Aster laevis ‘Climax’
- Aster lateriflorus ‘Lady in Black’
- Aster lateriflorus var. horizontalis ‘Prince’
- Aster lateriflorus ‘White Lovely’
- Aster macrophyllus ‘Albus’
- Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’
- Aster novae-angliae ‘Harringtons Pink’
- Aster novae-angliae ‘Nachtauge’
- Aster novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’
- Aster novae-angliae ‘Violetta’
- Aster novi-belgii ‘Blue Danube’
- Aster novi-belgii ‘Fellowship’
- Aster novi-belgii ‘Schneekissen’
- Aster novi-belgii ‘White Climax’
- Aster oblongifolius ‘Dream of Beauty’
- Aster oblongifolius ‘October Skies’
- Aster oblongifolius ‘Raydon’s Favorite’
- Aster ‘Ochtendgloren’
- Aster oolentangiense
- Aster ‘Orpheus’
- Aster pyrenaeus ‘Lutetia’
- Aster tataricus ‘Jindai’
- Aster tongolensis ‘Napsbury’
- Aster turbinellus
- Aster umbellatus
- Aster novi-belgii ‘White Swan’