Commonly called the Michaelmas daisy, asters comes in a multitude of varieties, colors and sizes. Fall is aster time. Known by the common name, Michaelmas daisy, this plant with starlike flowers has a ...

Snapshot: OK, this isn’t a California native, but this popular aster has made itself right at home in the Central Valley. This easy-care hybrid aster, developed in the early 1920s by Karl Frikart in ...

On a bright, sunny day in September 2002, I made my first trip to Hyde Hall, the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden in Essex. I photographed numerous late-flowering plants, but what really blew me ...

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