Extreme weather dominates my thoughts about gardening for this past year. It started with extreme winter mildness. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it was unnerving for those of us accustomed to harsh Chicago winters. January was about 8 degrees warmer than normal on average. Snow melted, the snowdrops (Galanthus) came up …
Category: Gardening Techniques, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shrubs and Small Trees, Weather Tags: Agastache foeniculum, Amelanchier, Anise Hyssop, Anise Scented Goldenrod, Aromatic Aster, Celandine Poppy, Chasmanthium latifolium, Culver's Root, Echinacea purpurea, Eupatorium 'Gateway', Galanthus, Gardening and Climate Change, Gardening and weather, Golden Alexander, Grape Hyacinth, Joe Pye Weed, Muscari, Northern Sea Oats, Oriental Lily 'Casa Blanca', Purple Coneflower, Rudbeckia triloba, Salvia 'May Night', Serviceberry 'Autumn Brilliance', Short's Aster, Snowdrops, Solidago odora, species tulips, Stylophorum diphyllum, Symphyotrichum oblongifolius, Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier, Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination', Zizia Aurea
Now that I have the taxonomy issue out of my system (see last post), I can write about the asters in my garden. (As hillwards points out, “They may not be Asters any more, but they will always be asters …”). All the asters I grow except for one are Midwest USA natives and straight …
Category: Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Wildlife Gardening Tags: Aromatic Aster, aster, Asters, Big Leaf Aster, Calico Aster, Crooked Stem Aster, native, Native Plants, New England Aster, Prairie Garden, Purple Dome, Short's Aster, White Woodland Aster, Wildflowers, Wildlife Gardening, Woodland Garden
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