Perennial Asters A Great Cut Flower For October
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2022
- Starting mid September and right through October each year perennial aster flowers are in full bloom in the garden. They are also known as michaelmas daisies and come under the name symphyotrichum and they make wonderful cut flowers. This week I wanted to show you the ones I have in bloom this autumn in the flower patch. Colourful, branching and beautiful daisy like flowers they make ideal filler flowers for bouquets and arrangements and have a great vase life.
I grow Aster novi-belgii and novae angliae varieties.
One of the prettiest most delicate blue asters I grow is aster little carlow and a particular favourite of mine.
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Well, thank you so very much! This video blessed me in many ways. For one, I did not realize they had perennial Astors! My wife likes them a lot. So I will be buying some perennial aster seeds. well, may God bless you, and all your hard work and greetings from south Louisiana USA!!!
Thank you so much for watching from Louisiana 😊 yes perennial asters are fantastic reliable flowers. I hope you can get some established in your garden for your wife to enjoy.
Thank you for the lovely information about asters.
Thank you, they are a lovely end of season burst of colour 😊
Right, off to find some perennial asters 🎉
They are lovely October flowers aren’t they! Thanks for watching 😊
This last season I used aster like mad for filler in bouquets. Hi from Utah, USA my favorite color so far are periwinkle. You have beautiful gardens. And great videos.
Thanks for watching 😊 periwinkle aster is lovely. Asters are just such a fabulous filler flower in bouquets. I need to be better at remembering to stake some of my taller varieties this year as the wind did cause a bit of havoc in the autumn!
Gorgeous video.
Thank you 😊
Great thanks
Thanks for watching Hannah x
Great info.....I bought a packet of seeds of these in the spring but didn't get around to starting them. I definitely will get some going next spring. Thanks for the inspiration. I really like your content!
Thanks Martha, I really love the asters every autumn. They are such cheerful bursts of colour at the end of the season and really reliable. I sowed a few annual asters from seed this year too and especially loved an apricot one I tried x
Wonderful information, thank you! I like that you can use it as a greenery before flowering. I'm starting up a perennial garden so this was very helpful.
Thank you, yes it’s great you can use it as greenery before the flowers. It’s always something I am looking to have more of, good foliage that lasts well in a vase and it helps if I am a bit short and needing some greenery for a bouquet. Good luck with setting up your perennial garden. I am growing more and more perennials for cutting as the years go by.
Thanks Catherine for very good info about Astras. They seem a very good garden filler.
Hi Kim, yes I definitely recommend perennial asters as a great filler for borders in the garden and for cutting at this time of year. So many different varieties, there is something to fit in with everyone’s garden and colour schemes x
Thanks for this video. Great tips! We also enjoy growing them but this is our only second year.
Thanks so much for watching. Asters are my last flowers of the season. Do you have any end of season flowers you have had success growing?
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I rediscovered chrysanthemum. Just moved them inside the polytunnel, so hopefully will have them for longer.
Fingers crossed that you keep getting chrysanthemums for a while longer in the polytunnel. We have just been away for a few days and I didn’t know if the flowers would be done by the time I came back but they are still with us!
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm that’s great!
My aster did not spread seed because my garden is heavy mulch but I’ve noticed that it spread a lot through rhizomes. They popping up about 5 feet away from the mother plant.
Thanks for watching. Yes you can gain quite a few new plants through it spreading that way and then you can relocate the new baby plants to other areas of the garden if you wish.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm yes I did as I love this plant. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for showing us your gorgeous asters. You are an amazing gardener Catherine. Everything grows for you! I am definitely going to try growing perennial asters. Can they be started from seed? I have annual aster seeds that I am going to sow, however I am wondering if I should wait until autumn now as I live in the mild subtropics, (Qld. AUS.) with lots of summer rain. It is warming up here a little now but we have had a very cool spring. Our summer temperatures rarely exceed 33 C. and we don't get hot summer winds. We have high humidity. We can get winter frost in our climate, but not every year. I try to adapt the British and the U.S. climates to my growing zones here in Australia. 😀😊
Asters really are lovely and yes you can grow both perennial and annual ones from seed. I grew a gorgeous apricot coloured annual aster this year but had trouble getting a good stem length so that’s something to work on next year. The only thing I wonder for you is how asters will do with the humidity as they can be prone to powdery mildew. It will be interesting to see how you get on with them. It’s interesting to hear about your climate there too. It doesn’t get nearly as hot for you as I thought it would and I never realised some years you would get frost. Annual asters may do better for you in the autumn if there is less rain then than the summer. What flowers do really well for you in your climate? X
Thanks Catherine - they're gorgeous. I've got some seed for them I think. I guess they'd survive a cold winter. Great information. Another question - do you grow chrysanthemums?
I live in Quebec Canada where they are native. I pick them from the ditches. Our winters regularly go down to -35C and summers up to 40C, they are very tough. The only thing I might avoid is a boggy spot, but otherwise a very tough plant.
@@marysmith5891 Mary I cannot believe that low temp! Amazing. Thanks so much for that - much appreciated..!
Hi Alison, I do grow chrysanthemums but tend to go for the early flowering varieties as my season ends around about now and the later flowering ones haven’t had a chance to get going and by the time they do I have no other flowers to arrange them with. The early varieties flower in September for me which works well. I take cuttings each year and top up with new ones from Chrysanthemums Direct. The asters yes Mary is right they are definitely a very hardy plant to get through the winters. They survive very well here in Scotland when we get a much colder winter where it is well below zero, although it never gets anywhere near as cold as Quebec. Thats really interesting to know that they survive so well for you there Mary and in the heat of the summer too. Thanks for sharing this x
Can you give a few example of true blue asters or as close to blue as possible ?
Hello, it’s quite difficult to get a true blue aster that’s not slightly lavender. The ones I grow in the garden that are closest to a blue are little carlow, aster novii belgii blue and marie ballard.
Gorgeous. Unfortunately they’re a favorite food for rabbits which just mow them down to the ground in my garden.
Oh no that’s unfortunate. I am lucky that my asters are in my fenced off areas which keeps the rabbits out. They really can be so destructive to plants.
What is the name of the purple begii aster?
I think the one in the video you mean is purple dome, thanks for watching.
How to prune asters?
Hello, thanks so much for watching. I usually leave the asters after flowering over the winter. Then in March towards the end of the winter I cut the old flowering stems back hard to just above ground level and new growth can start coming through.