Then, once all danger of frost has passed, your young aster plants should be ready to be hardened off and transplanted outside. Aster seeds can also be directly sown after your last frost.

calico aster and frost aster are hanging on as I write this, and I can see flowering specimens in my yard. The family of plants that asters belong to is generally called the sunflower family ...

It’s a journey down memory lane of the botanical studies of asters and goldenrods, one of the most difficult groups of plants to study, in some cases, more difficult than willows and hawthorns. This ...