The Douglas aster just joined my plant family this spring. My project during the COVID-19 lockdown was to add a native plant garden where some of my front lawn used to be. I was excited that the local native plant nursery had Douglas asters for sale in four-inch pots. I purchased three of them and set them out near the sidewalk. They have done really well there and are now blooming handsomely at close to three feet tall.
My future plans for these plants are to take divisions in early fall to increase my numbers of them and start planting them in the memory garden. I have other perennial asters there, but they are not the Seattle natives and pollinators seem ambivalent about them.