Over 400 species exist, although few species are in cultivation. Celebrate the joys of fall gardening with a great variety of Asters.
Asters generally ask for sun to part shade and an average to dry location.
They are quite drought tolerant once established and offer billows of daisy-like flowers from August into November. If you provide a trellis or post, this amazing Aster will scramble to the top. Foliage is slightly grayish with narrow leaves. Loads of tight, purplish pink buds pop open to reveal spidery rose-pink flowers that mature to lilac. It becomes fuller every year, and is happiest in a damp or regularly watered location.