The best aster varieties can be relied on to fill borders and pots with long-lasting color. Homes & Gardens. Best aster varieties – 10 beautiful options with colorful and striking blooms.

Reasons for confusion abound. Some asters have multiple common names, such as heath aster and frost aster. Different books sometimes use different common names. Botanists refer to Latin scientific ...

Another great small-flowered aster is Aster ericoides. ... Aster laevis is a really tough and handsome drought-resistant aster for full sun that grows to about 3 feet to 4 feet tall.

A fall-blooming native perennial is the Snow Flurry heath aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides 'Snow Flurry' syn. Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry'). Snow Flurry has small, stiff, dark-green lanceolate ...

For gardeners, the blooms that typify the period running up to the equinox are the asters, a broad collection of daisy relatives which are just right for creating a mass of colour as the nights ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. A great water-wise perennial is the Snow Flurry aster (Aster ericoides ‘Snow Flurry’), a carpeting ground cover that helps prevent ...