Fall is the time of year when we start thinking about putting the garden to bed and letting it take a nice long rest. But not so fast! There is still plenty to be done to prep your garden for winter.

Commonly called the Michaelmas daisy, asters comes in a multitude of varieties, colors and sizes. Fall is aster time. Known by the common name, Michaelmas daisy, this plant with starlike flowers has a ...

Snapshot: OK, this isn’t a California native, but this popular aster has made itself right at home in the Central Valley. This easy-care hybrid aster, developed in the early 1920s by Karl Frikart in ...

With a much-appreciated decrease in temperature coupled with shortening days, September is letting us know that fall is closing in, but who wants to relent just yet. September through October can ...

AFTER MONTHS of rollicking productivity, the garden seems to pause in early September to draw a deep breath. This brief hiatus in seasonal progression marks the end of spring and summer exuberance, ...

On a bright, sunny day in September 2002, I made my first trip to Hyde Hall, the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden in Essex. I photographed numerous late-flowering plants, but what really blew me ...

SOME time last year I referred to Aster x frikartii 'Monch' as "one of the six best plants that should be in every garden". It was a quotation from our greatest plantsman, Graham Stuart Thomas. A ...