Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’ at Digging Dog Nursery

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 macrophyllus ‘Twilight’

Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’ (P-1920)

Each 10.75

A “real winner” is how the late celebrated plantsman and author Christopher Lloyd described this form of our versatile eastern North American native Aster. Slow-spreading rhizomes plus toothed heart-shaped leaves compile an attractive green basal rosette, bearing upright red-imbued stalks and broad, openly branched flat-topped clusters of rich lavender-blue daisies with yellow centers that age to rose. Flower-laden, mildew-free and amenable, ‘Twilight’ can be massed at a woodland’s edge and be added to cottage gardens or perennial borders, where it tolerates dry shade.

Blooms August–September

Size: 2-1/2' – 3' 0" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.

Zone 3/4.

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