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.
Copious clusters of fine-rayed, plush dark purple flowers with large butterscotch-colored discs are buoyed by ‘Violetta’s tall, close-knit stand of straight mighty stems. Beneath the nearly iridescent star-like blooms, dashing lance-shaped green leaves garb the vigorous, somewhat woody clump. This stately New England native resists mildew, cherishes sun, handles some shade, nourishes pollinators and birds plus splashes luxuriant late season color amid fall borders, butterfly gardens and prairie-style plantings.
Blooms August–October
Size: 4' 0" – 5' 0" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.
Zone 3/4.
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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 ‘Bleke Bet’
- 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 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’
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