Move over, chrysanthemums, there’s another beautiful autumn bloomer that belongs in your garden. Not only do asters look fabulous, but they also provide late season food for pollinators such as ...

Autumn is the time of golden, scarlet and maroon leaves and shortened days. It is the time for picking apples and harvesting vegetables. We watch our gardens slowly decline, and yet there is one ...

Perennial asters are the flowers of autumn, and one native aster that has been gaining popularity with gardeners is the aromatic aster, aster oblongifolius (syn. Symphyotrichum oblongifolium). Its ...

Asters are a beautiful fall-blooming perennial that complement garden mums. Delicate daisylike flowers come in white, blue, lavender, pink and raspberry. When mature, asters can range in height from 2 ...

Do you know why it’s so easy to trick a leaf in autumn? Because they’ll fall for anything. Autumn leaves do produce amazing fall color, but they’re not alone. Many perennial flowers arrive at peak ...

Perennials aren't demanding plants, but trimming them after flowering finishes in autumn improves their appearance and flowering. However, you can leave some stems during winter to provide homes and ...

The trees are putting on their flamboyant dresses in celebration of autumn. Below, though, things are not nearly so cheery. Grass is less vibrantly green and yellow patches are beginning to show up.

If someone asked you to name the most dramatic color of autumn, odds are the last one on your list would be purple. However, the next time you see a bed of fall asters in full bloom, see if it doesn’t ...

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Pennsylvania gardeners Ondra and Cohen (Perennial Gardener’s Design Primer) bring imaginative ideas, practical techniques and new inspiration to autumn, that often-neglected tail end of the gardening ...