Choosing the right size pot for aster variety is a primary consideration. Aster seeds require cold stratification for germination. Plant nursery seedlings six to eight weeks before heavy frost in ...

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 ...

Move over, mums! 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 butterflies and ...

Joellen Dimond discusses shrubs, and Mr. D. talks about fall and winter fruit tree care. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

Every year, the fall-blooming asters and mums play a colorful trick on me. It's a plot. They wait until the weather cools and we've had a frost or two, and I am in the mulch-mode, determined that the ...