Q: What are Michaelmas daisies? My mother used to grow them, and I can’t find them in the nurseries. A: I think I first heard the term Michaelmas daisy in a PBS mystery — didn’t Agatha Christie’s Miss ...

Michaelmas daisies look great in autumn, with their stems studded with daisy flowers in pink, purple or white, each with a lush golden centre. Michaelmas daisies look great in autumn, with their stems ...

Q: My grandsons and I have a wildflower bed. Every spring we sow packets of wildflower seeds for butterflies and bees. This plant has become a large bush and blooms in the fall. Bees love it. Can you ...

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 ...

Michaelmas daisies – or asters as they are also known – are wonderful as the summer comes to an end. They aren’t showy plants but are often cheerfully beautiful, sometimes sublime and always great for ...

Where would we be without daisies? Even if their blaze of tiny flowers drives lawn perfectionists mad in spring, come September their big cousins, Michaelmas daisies, are more than welcome. North ...

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 ...

AS the sun sinks ever closer to the horizon, the colours of autumn creep into the garden and none more markedly than warm hues of the Michaelmas daisies, or asters. Michaelmas falls in October, hence ...

GINA PARKINSON celebrates an autumn star turn that keeps on flowering as winter hovers near. ALTHOUGH the garden is rapidly heading to its winter slumber, a few precious plants manage to flower ...

These whimsical flowers will brighten up your landscape. Steffen Gathling / lens-flare.de / Getty Images When you think of daisies, small white flowers with a yellow center likely come to mind. But ...