Aster tataricus 24/10 Restock a close cousin of the

a close cousin of the snowbells and silverbells

Most maple-leaf oaks in cultivation trace back to a fine specimen at the Morton Arboretum in Illinois

dependable source of fragrance for the winter shade garden

The desert willow parent gives chitalpa real toughness

Photos courtesy of Mike Creech and Bob Stelloh

Aster tataricus 24/10 Restock a close cousin of theMost asters have quit by the time Tatarian aster gets started. Aster tataricus opens in late September and keeps going through October and into November, still looking fresh at the first frost, on stems that stand five or six feet without a stake. The flowers are small, barely an inch across, lavender blue with a yellow eye, but they arrive in flat topped clusters by the hundred, and at that height they read as a haze of color at eye level rather than