{"id":8826,"date":"2020-10-03T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2020-10-03T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:50:08","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-250-perennial-asters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/03\/plant-a-day-2020-day-250-perennial-asters\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 250) Perennial Asters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first and favorite perennial aster arrived unnamed from brother Tim from one of the gardens he was tending for an elderly woman. It has lavendar flowers in September\/October and spreads generously. You don\u2019t really remember it is there until the flowers start poking out among all the other plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The late timing of these perennial asters is a blessing in any garden or border. We have so few good flowers blooming in the autumn. I ended up adding a bunch of starts of various asters to the memory garden from a grower selling on eBay. I also ordered some hybrid asters from some mail-order categories. All of them are blooming now in October with very little else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n