Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
Aromatic Aster is fantastic native plant for two reasons: it’s relatively short and it blooms extremely late in the fall, providing flowers when everything else has succumbed to frost. When it finally blooms, it creates a spreading mound of light purplish blue flowers. Because it will be one of the only plants blooming, it will be covered in pollinators on warm fall days: bees especially, and even late-season butterflies.
It doesn’t spread as much by seed as the other asters, making it a more friendly garden plant. Aromatic Aster does spread by underground roots (rhizomes), so plant grasses around it that can keep it in check. The first season, It will have a few stems. The second season, it will be about a 2 ft wide clump. By the 4th or 5th year, it will spread to about 4 ft wide.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry, Medium-Dry, Medium
Height: 2 feet
Blooms: Sept, Oct, Nov
Color: Purplish Blue
Spacing: 18″
Spreads: 9” a year by roots
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Butterflies, Pollinators
Aromatic Aster spreads by underground rhizomes (roots) about 1 foot each a year, so to prevent it from spreading too much, plant grasses such as Prairie Dropseed or Little Bluestem in a circle around it–their roots will help keep it in check. You might not want to plant smaller natives close by, or Aromatic Aster might eventually spread over them.
If you don’t want Aromatic Aster spreading as much, you can pull the shallow rhizomes out in the spring. Watch for new stems sticking out about a foot away from the main plant, and carefully pull them out or use a trowel to help dig them out. The rhizomes on Aromatic Aster are shallower than on most rhizomatous plants and they aren’t too hard to pull out.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Prairie Coreopsis
Grey Goldenrod
Little Bluestem
Purple Poppy Mallow
Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
Aromatic Aster is fantastic native plant for two reasons: it’s relatively short and it blooms extremely late in the fall, providing flowers when everything else has succumbed to frost. When it finally blooms, it creates a spreading mound of light purplish blue flowers. Because it will be one of the only plants blooming, it will be covered in pollinators on warm fall days: bees especially, and even late-season butterflies.
It doesn’t spread as much by seed as the other asters, making it a more friendly garden plant. Aromatic Aster does spread by underground roots (rhizomes), so plant grasses around it that can keep it in check. The first season, It will have a few stems. The second season, it will be about a 2 ft wide clump. By the 4th or 5th year, it will spread to about 4 ft wide.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry, Medium-Dry, Medium
Height: 2 feet
Blooms: Sept, Oct, Nov
Color: Purplish Blue
Spacing: 18″
Spreads: 9” a year by roots
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Butterflies, Pollinators
Aromatic Aster spreads by underground rhizomes (roots) about 1 foot each a year, so to prevent it from spreading too much, plant grasses such as Prairie Dropseed or Little Bluestem in a circle around it–their roots will help keep it in check. You might not want to plant smaller natives close by, or Aromatic Aster might eventually spread over them.
If you don’t want Aromatic Aster spreading as much, you can pull the shallow rhizomes out in the spring. Watch for new stems sticking out about a foot away from the main plant, and carefully pull them out or use a trowel to help dig them out. The rhizomes on Aromatic Aster are shallower than on most rhizomatous plants and they aren’t too hard to pull out.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Prairie Coreopsis
Grey Goldenrod
Little Bluestem
Purple Poppy Mallow
