What: A lovely North American native, Aster divaricatus rambles and tumbles through the garden bed. In late summer a profusion of lacey small white flowers top the lax purple-black stems. The frothy ...

Aster season is coming to an end here in Zone 5, but don’t cut down those drying stalks just yet, says John Magee. A garden designer based in Middleburg, Va., John is a leader of the native plant ...

Autumn's on the way, and there's no time like today to get acquainted with your designated September birth flowers — aster and morning glory. Whether a striking star or velvety trumpet, these radiant ...

I began a quest to learn to identify asters, all those multi-petal, tiny daisy-like flowers in hues of pink, purple and white blooming in autumn and attracting myriad species of bees and other insects ...

The aster flower has an interesting history and it belongs to the astonishing Asteraceae family which has a long list of unexpected plants. It is nonpoisonous and has been used for food and medicine.

Commonly called the Michaelmas daisy, asters comes in a multitude of varieties, colors and sizes. Fall is aster time. Known by the common name, Michaelmas daisy, this plant with starlike flowers has a ...