Common name: Alpine aster Scientific name: Aster alpinus Origin: Europe Low, steadily spreading plants with individual flowers in purple or pink, making these ideal pink plants for a summer border.

Big Leaf Aster is a great groundcover for a shady area with crappy soil. It will grow in all types of soil. The plant will eventually grow into a solid ground cover by rhizomes (underground stems).

Both varieties are larval hosts for the Pearl ... purity and precision. Aster flowers were considered to be sacred to Greek and Roman gods. The leaves were burned by ancient Greeks and Romans ...

Space the plants at least a foot apart in order to provide good air flow, which should reduce the risk of this disease. ‘Fanny’s Aster’ has blue flowers and reaches 4 feet tall 'Kickin ...

He also plants a lot of the blue wood aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium), which bears light blue flowers in full sun to partial shade, and calico aster (Symphiotrichum laterifolium) “Lady in Black,” ...

Closely related to its Mediterranean counterpart, chicory, Stokes aster is ... and even yellow. Plants grown from seed may not carry the same desirable traits as the parent plant, so propagation ...