If you have a small corner or area in your garden that has been left empty and you are looking for a perennial plant with a beautiful autumn flowering, do not hesitate to get a plant of Aster. It is very similar to the daisy, but the petals are thinner and as amazingly colored as blue or white.
It has a fairly fast growth rateso if you’re in a rush to fill in those lifeless spots, you won’t have to wait long .
What is the Aster plant like?
Aster’s plant, known as the Starry Sky or Aster of Scotland, it is a herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern and central North America. Reaches a height of up to 100cmbut normally it does not exceed 50cm. Its leaves are alternate, lanceolate, with a serrated margin and a size of 5-15cm in length by 6-15cm in width.
The flowers are bigabout 2cm wide, in colors that can be pink, purple, white, blue or red. They sprout in late summer or fall.
How do you take care of yourself?
If you dare to have one or more copies, then we explain how to take care of them:
- Location: outside, in semi-shade. If the weather is cool you can have full sun.
- Land: well drained, loose, and fertile.
- Irrigation: frequent. During the summer it is advisable to water 3 or 4 times a week, and the rest of the year one or two every six days.
- Subscriber: can be paid in spring and throughout the flowering season with organic fertilizers, such as manure.
- Planting time: early spring. It can also be done in summer if it is not in bloom.
- Pruning: dry, diseased or weak stems should be removed towards the end of autumn, and the tips cut in spring.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring, and by division of the bush every 3 or 4 years in spring-summer.
- Rusticity: withstands cold down to -6ºC.
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