New England Aster
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.
Bred by Mr. Hilliard from Williamsburg, Iowa and celebrated by Graham Stuart Thomas for its ample “garden charm,” this well-loved Aster highlights pink flowers and a tall profile. Lavish quantities of dainty gold-centered daisies, each house nearly 50 layered finely cut rays, while cresting thick straight, somewhat woody, branched stalks. The robust grayish green clump, crowded with stem-clasping, bristle-rough, 4 to 5 in. long leaves, tolerates wet soil and some shade, resists mildew and looks lovely next to Sedum ‘Indian Chief’ and blue-blooming Asters.
Blooms August–September
Size: 3' 0" – 5' 0" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 3.
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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 ‘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’
