Key Points Asters are popular late summer perennials, sometimes grown as container annuals for fall color.Deadheading asters regularly helps to prolong their bloom time and encourage bigger ...

If you're struggling to fill bare spots in your shady landscape, these beautiful annual flowers will provide color and texture in full to partial shade.

Mums are a go-to fall bloom for containers, but that also makes them a bit boring. Spice things up with other, equally pretty ...

Delicate, daisy-like Asters burst into bloom toward the end of August, making them the glory of the fall garden, providers of pretty color until the arrival of frost. Colors range from purple to ...

Asters are a dear addition to the fall garden. Flowers are usually purple but may also come in white, blue or pink. There are taller ones that go great in the back of the flower bed, and shorter ones ...

They are everywhere, In the fields, in the gardens, even in the wedding bouquets. You see them in white, pink, lavender, violet, blue, and even yellow. What wonderful flowers. There are as many as 170 ...

Gardeners can add vibrant fall color with goldenrods and New England asters, both easy and long-lived, while also supporting bees with their pollen. DENVER — If your garden lacks color now, consider ...

Asters are stars of the late summer and early fall garden. Getrude Jekyll, English grand dame of perennial garden design, loved them so much that she devoted an entire border to asters (whose name ...

The mornings are getting colder and there has been frost on the docks and boats at sunrise. The willows and aspen are turning gold, and purple asters seem to be still blooming in abundance here in ...

I think a well-tended vegetable garden is a thing of beauty. Even so, our landscape would be rather dull if not for all of the colorful flowers I’ve planted over the years. The mainstays are ...

Annual flowers that will flourish in the shade can transform any dim corner of your garden into one of the most inviting spaces. Shade can seem limiting, but many plants have adapted to grow with ...