When you tidy your garden in preparation for winter, there's one item you should avoid doing if you want to attract beautiful birds to your garden during the colder months: Pruning back certain ...

Move over, chrysanthemums, there’s another beautiful autumn bloomer that belongs in your garden. Not only do asters look fabulous, but they also provide late season food for pollinators such as ...

New York asters (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii) are an excellent choice if you're starting a pollinator garden. Asters are native to eastern North America and native birds and pollinators find them a ...

Perennial plants survive from one growing season to the next, regrowing from their roots each spring. Discover gorgeous, fast ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is a time of year when a lot of people give up on growing new plants, but it’s a great time to grow local, using native plants. You can buy seeds and ...

Asters are valuable perennials for bringing color to a garden in late summer and fall. Their star-shaped flowers come in vivid shades of purple, pink, red, white, and more, all surrounding a central ...

Stokes’ asters have always been among my favorite native perennials though I have typically only grown them in small drifts of five to seven plants. Now at the Columbus Botanical Garden I’ve got more ...

Plus, it blooms across many zones.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A series of flowers growing along the edge of a garden - Mtreasure/Getty Images Beautiful and native to North America, most plants ...

As I wander the grounds of the arboretum throughout the month of May, my eye is caught by the blue flowers of the late spring-blooming plant commonly known as Stokes aster. Closely related to its ...

Discover gorgeous low-maintenance perennials that deliver stunning blooms for long-lasting color and texture throughout the ...