Symphyotrichum grandiflorum 26/7 Restock often while frost still lingers

often while frost still lingers

each four-inch cylindrical brush composed of hundreds of long red filaments tipped with golden anthers

closer to melon and pineapple than the strawberry scent of the maroon forms

this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here

this is a redbud for the collector and for the gardener who wants the familiar spring magenta on a slightly different

Symphyotrichum grandiflorum 26/7 Restock often while frost still lingersA native aster with a regional accent. Most of the asters Americans plant are wide ranging species that turn up from Maine to Texas and read essentially the same wherever they grow. Symphyotrichum grandiflorum is more particular, with a native range small and specific: the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia and the Carolinas, plus the Piedmont of the Carolinas, and little more. A few hundred miles of sandy roadsides, dry pine oak woods, abandoned