What is Aster in New England?
Native New England is often referred to as Michaelmas Daisy because it has a composite flower similar to Daisy. Botanists call it aster novae-English and assigns it to the family Asteraceae or Aster. New England Aster is originally from parts of North America. In the wild it grows in various regions, including mountain, forest and roads. Over the years, botanists and aster enthusiar have increased the colorful floor. Modern gardeners enjoy colors such as purple purple, pink pink and salmon pink. "Wedding lace" sports pure white rays, while "Barr's Pink" has a bright pink beam rinsed around yellow top red disk flowers.
Florets are small flowers that form a large folded flower. Aster Flowerhead may look like one flower, but it's a group of small flowers. The composite flower has very small, tubular lights on Wednesday that matures into the seeds. Colorful flowers similar to petals that rings to the center are rays. This is a signalingCharacters that make the attention of the plant on insects. Individual floral heads can measure up to 2 inches (5 cm) across.
New England Aster usually has flowers that grow in spray similar to Corymb, which can measure up to 10 inches (about 25 cm) across. This means that one trunk of the flower stem has several floral heads that grow along the top of the stem. Flower stem is usually not enriched but flat. Sometimes these stems of flowers are so highest with large flowers that they need to bet.
are usually plants intense growers who can fill the garden bed. They usually grow from 2 to 5 feet (about 0.5 to 1.5 m) high with 24 inches (about 60 cm). Some are dwarves like "purple dome", which grows only 18 inches (about 45 cm) tall and 30 inches (about 75 cm) wide. Depending on their size, gardeners grow them in the border, rock gardens and floral races. Many of the higherCultivars can be trimmed to reduce their height and stimulate the shrub and more buds.
Generally growers sow seeds into cold frames in spring in areas where there is a problem of frost. Other ways of spreading plants include cluster division. Asters benefits from being divided according to a regular schedule, usually every two years. Plants react best if they are separated in the spring, but growers can separate them in autumn. Most kindergartens sell young plants and can offer newer cultivars.
New England leaves are typical of Aster leaves. They are furry, green and Lance in the shape. They often grow to 5 inches (13 cm) long. The leaves hatch directly from the thick stems of the plant without the stem of the leaves.