Aster woods blue

Nice clean, fine-textured foliage all season. Lush low carpets of fall color. Learn more about Monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. Wood ’s Purple’ is a compact aster form that is similar to A. Ten to twenty narrow ray flowers, ranging in color from dark blue to off-white, surround a yellow center. The daisy-like blossoms appear throughout autumn and the dark green foliage is compact and relatively carefree.

Woods Light Blue ’ has densely packed clusters of light blue flowers on short stalks. Flowers in light blue shades appear between August and October. Fall-blooming favorite, with daisy-like flowers in varied colors. Selected mildew-resistant varieties. Blue wood aster is covered with flowers in October and November.

Northern sea oats, Chasmanthium latifoliupendulous oat-like flowers grace this native shade grass in October and November. It thrives in shady spots under trees, along the edges of woodlands, or sunny spots. Heath aster ( S. ericoides ): A low-growing ground cover (similar to creeping phlox ) with small, white flowers. Looks great with ornamental grasses.

Also known as Michaelmas Daisies these old favourites bloom from late summer into fall with lots of intense blue , long lasting, daisy-like flowers. Symphyotrichum cordifolium (L.) G. The light blue flowers are borne for several weeks in late summer and fall. This hybrid is sterile so the flowers last longer.

Perfectly clean and mildew-resistant foliage provides the perfect backdrop to the single, clear, and medium blue flowers with gold centers from late summer into fall. It is a wonderful container plant, great cut flower, and excellent butterfly attractant! Genus name comes from the Latin word aster meaning star for the shape of the flowers. Compact plants do not require staking.

Foliage shows good disease resistance. It is most notably associated with mixed prairie plant types, and is also a dominant understory species in quaking-aspen communities. Adaptation USDA hardiness zones for smooth blue aster are to 8. Smooth blue aster occurs on various soil. This recent aster selection was made by Lynn Caton, from the breeding program of the late Ed Wood of Portland and makes a stunning, compact clump of clean, dark-green foliage, topped in August and September with sprays of medium- blue flowers with yellow centers.

For those interested in sustainable landscapes, many of the on this site work well in bioretention gardens and rain gardens, which filter stormwater runoff and provide the necessary moisture for the plant life within them to thrive. Valued for its late summer and fall floral display. Plant in mass for best effect or interplant among other perennials.

Aster Common Name: Hardy Aster. Description: Light, blue -purple flowers with gold centers cover a compact mound of green, lanceolate leaves. Requires rich, well-drained soil. Pinch back in early summer to keep compact. These ground-covering perennials work well in a border or container and make beautiful cut flowers.

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Plant has a mounding habit and in late summer is covered with. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage. This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Pair it with mums and heuchera for a stunning fall show.

As a garden plant for partial shade, it tolerates a wide variety of soils and is drought resistant. It prefers a full sun to mostly sunny position, and is suitable for zones 4-9. This pretty plant attracts butterflies, and is rabbit resistant.

Prefers well drained soil, and full to partial sun. Plants are very durable and long lived. Very hardy, forming ever-increasing compact clumps but they need to be divided every - years in the early spring. Abundant, densely packed clusters of semi-double, clear blue blooms from late summer to fall.

Blooms are highlighted by dark green, finely textured foliage. Since this species has a dwarf, compact habit, it will not require staking.