The BEST aster for any type of garden and butterflies and bees love it: Frikart’s Aster.
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Prairie gardens, rain gardens, Permaculture guilds, cottage gardens, formal flower borders: all can benefit from the addition of this great, long-blooming beautiful perennial.
Blooms July-late October and is a fantastic insectiary plant.
Aster x frikartii, Aster “Mönch”
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It’s always best to plant native plants. The permaculture world frequently has no clue about native ecology.
My garden is a certified backyard wildlife habitat with loads of natives. Our native Douglas aster can take over and is quite assertive and not always the best choice for a home garden.
Not everybody subscribes to the idea that all of our landscapes should be static plant museums. Why should the year 1492 be the magical time marker that dictates which plants and animals are allowed to live where? Local climates change over time, and we need the biodiversity / flexibility to weather those fluctuations in sunlight, rain, and wind. I personally am a fan of introducing as much diversity as possible. Maybe someday our local forests will be bursting with just as much biodiversity as the much-praised Amazon rain forests.
@@waterphoenix3120 phenology dictates it
@@waterphoenix3120, because doing what you’ve described is what directly and frequently wipes out whole native ecosystems with all of their diversity, both floral and faunal.
@@ParkrosePermaculture have you tried any of these, whose native ranges all overlap with Douglas aster (Symphyotrichum subspicatum)?
S. ascendens
S. boreale
S. campestre
S. chilense
S. ciliatum
S. × columbianum
S. cusickii
S. eatonii
S. ericoides
S. falcatum
S. foliaceum
S. frondosum
S. hallii
S. hendersonii
S. jessicae
S. laeve
S. lanceolatum
S. spathulatum
Wow I will be getting some of those! The purple color is stunning, I see what draws the insects! :P I love your style of teaching and have been sharing some of your videos to my friends and family!
Good information, loved the video.
So where did you get the plants from?!? 😊
No pollinator visible in this video, it's a shame. I have an aster x frikartii Monch in my garden, but no browsing visits this summer. I'm disappointed. But this aster is beautiful.
it was cool and overcast when I filmed this, so not many pollinators out n about. Check out my recent video on my top 5 perennials for a late season garden and you'll see loads of Ceratina, Melissodes, Bombus, and honeybees.
@@ParkrosePermaculture Many thanks for your answer and your work, bonjour de France !
Try checking at different times of day. Sometimes I discover that flowers I don't think are attracting pollinators actually are, but only at certain times of day when I'm not usually checking on them. I figure it out when I look at them at a different time than I normally do.
does it look good in Winter like ammelus ?
It dies back to the ground
@@ParkrosePermaculture i know but i meant if the dead stems and the "seedheads" look nice
Will this perennial variety spread on the ground or needs to be propagated to become bushy?
If you don’t cut the faded aster flowers, the seeds might grow into plants where you don’t want them! I know as my unchecked initial New England plant grew to two more with one several meters away! I might have to dig it up next season, it’s seriously taking up too much space for other potential plants.
I personally found it easy to propagate NE asters with cuttings. I have one that is flowering right now in this late September 2023, still very small and probably will be huge next season like the cutting that I tested last year. Rooting hormones help *a lot*, I highly suggest using such commercial powder for better conversions!
Lastly, I pinched my four aster patches throughout spring and summer 2023 and they show much much more flowers! I’ll definitely do that on my cosmos next year.
The end.
Pollinators don't seem to like it
mine is covered with bees and hoverflies all summer and into the autumn. It's one of their favorite foods late in the season.
What do you have planted near it while it is in bloom?
So where did you get the plants from?!? 😊