Asters glow brightly in your fall garden. Learn all you need to know them, including the best aster flower varieties, growing ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it comes to adding color and visual interest to your garden, you’ve probably already planted flowers ...

Asters are members of the daisy family (Asteraceae), along with dahlias, marigolds and sunflowers. The two most common types of asters in our area are the New England aster and the New York aster.

An excellent choice to consider for late-season interest in your garden is the New England aster, a North American native plant with many benefits. When other plants start to wither, New England ...

* What it is: ‘Grape Crush’ is a recently introduced variety of our native New England aster that’s a very heavy bloomer and also compact enough that staking usually isn’t needed despite the many ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." New England asters (Symphotrichum novae-angliae) are native to the U.S. with small daisy-like flowers in ...

Few things are more disheartening than spending days planning and planting a flower garden, only to have it decimated by deer within a night or two. Fortunately, there are some flowering plants that ...

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 ...

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Native Plant Trust, the organization dedicated to growing and conserving native plants in New England. Meteorologist Dave Epstein spoke ...