Q: My grandsons and I have a wildflower bed. Every spring we sow packets of wildflower seeds for butterflies and bees. This plant has become a large bush and blooms in the fall. Bees love it. Can you ...

We are coming up to aster time, when the Michaelmas daisies come into their own. They shine in the crystal clear light peculiar to late summer and early autumn, providing nectar for butterflies and ...

THE flowering of Aster novi-belgii or Michaelmas daisy in my garden, a big mauve sister to the common little white daisy, was timely, occurring as it did around the September 29, the feast day of St ...

I have always had a thing against asters, or Michaelmas daisies. Their plain central disk, with the petals whorled obviously around it, have a certain charm but I've always found this daisy flower too ...