Aromatic Aster Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite' (ASS-ter) (ob-long-ee-FOH-lee-um) Synonyms: Fall Aster, Symphyotrichum oblongifolium I took these Aster pictures during the first week of October and am just getting around to looking at them. I swear I should keep better track of things. It is sometimes fun to look back and see some ‘new’ pictures. There are few more on the roll that I will be posting this week. This first Aster is fairly tall at 36 inches, but it doesn’t flop over. The thing I like best about it is it really blooms late and for a long time. . . .
Now that the weathers beginning to cool most of the plants in my garden are beginning to die down but the New York asters still look pretty good. Not quite as good as they do in this photo which was taken about a month ago or so, but they still look nice enough.
Over the next week or so I’m going to be going out in the garden to trim plants and prepare the garden for winter. I hope it’s not too cold outside when I do my garden winterizing!
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Now you KNOW I love New England asters. I feature them prominently in photos showing off my garden. I tout them as native plants that require no fussing at all, even in periods of drought. But this year's superdrought taught me to ask one more questions about a plant's (supposed) tolerance for drought. To wit: Will it not only survive but actually look good?. . .
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I love my New York Asters. Aren’t they just lovely? The flowers are only about an inch across and they don’t bloom until mid September or so each year. Even though we’re nearing the end of October my New York asters are still going strong. . . .
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This a serious omission - Asters. There aren't any in the beds at Mamaroneck. Maybe I needed to be inspired by these images of lush color and substantial shape and mass at this time of year. I particularly liked the shade of purple of the ones pictured above and these white ones looked perfect against the bleached white driftwood and rustic fence. If it looks familiar to you its because I photographed it earlier in the summer when it featured a stand of Rose Campion.
This is one of the few flower photos I have posted in this blog that wasn’t taken with the 60mm Nikkor-Micro lens. I used an old film camera lens that I had for my N50. It is a 28-200 Sigma lens that is okay but I don’t think that I will ever buy another lens that covers such a broad spectrum again. I want fast lenses! Although I did use the Sigma a lot in Florida I have found working with a
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I love asters. I only wish that they bloomed throughout the whole summer rather than the end of summer and into fall. I spend the summer waiting for them to bloom and then I’m sad when I...
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I love to check in with the New York Times and see what gardening columnist Anne Raver has been up to. Her latest column was all about asters: tall ones, short ones, climbing ones, natives and hybrids.
The taxonomy (naming and classification) of asters is hard for me to keep up with. I’ll just have to re-read her column about 10 times and see if I can figure out the different varieties.
Every garden should have a few asters. But give it some thought. I have the ubiquitous Purple Dome and it is aptly named. It has to be cut back starting in May, again in June, and again in July. This will keep it about thigh high and delays the blooms until mid-September. If not cut back, it would be blooming the end of June and the plants would be the size of Volkswagon bugs. I want my asters to bloom at the end of the season, in September when perennial color is starting to wane from exhaustion. Fifteen hour days and 100 degree temperatures, little water…….it takes a toll, even with the best planning. Anyway, asters give the garden a nice jump start - a last gasp gasp of gaudy floral glory.
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I could not figure out how my aunt got starts of these asters from my Dad, when I could not remember my Dad ever having these in our yard when I was growing up. I was bothered that I could not remember these because I think I was more aware of the plants around me at an earlier age than most, come to find out when I compare notes with others. And I certainly hope I would remember a flower like this that is blooming when not a lot of other flowers are. . .
Great story! -OR
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Michaelmas Daisies (Aster novi-belgii), the New York asters, and their cousins the New England asters (Aster novae-anglicae), proclaim autumn landscape color.
I prefer asters over mums. -OR
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Here it is, almost fall. Notice I said, "almost"! I'm having a tough time giving up summer this year. It blew by much too fast! As we drive around our northern New Hampshire environment, we see wild asters everywhere. The wild kind we have are kind of a bluish-purple color. They liven up the areas that no longer sport daisys and goldenrod. Aside from the wild varieties, there are many cultivated asters in people's gardens that are much brighter, and of a much greater variety of colors. It doesn't matter though. There they are, and I love them. . .
Asta? Asta! The astas asters are blooming and Nick and Nora’s wire haired terrier, Asta, is not running through my garden, however, my dogs and I would love Asta to visit. Nick and Nora would be a
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Perennial asters are named as the Dutch nursery industry’s plant of the Month for September. They are amongst the most spectacular of the autumn-blooming perennials, are easy to grow and do well in average soils. While most need full sun; others will do well in partial shade or even full shade. Asters are available in blues, purples, a variety of pinks, as well as white. . . .
This spring, I decided to remove several re-seeding asters, both pink and purple blooming. They're invasive, need too much pinching, and the bang at the end is not worth the trouble.
I didn't remove all of them, however. And a few I moved to a spot where the invasiveness was welcome.
This morning, I noticed that the j. beetles were chomping away on stalks of some of the remaining asters. Good. Have at them.
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