Garden Plant: KICKIN Aster Carmine Red
KICKIN Aster Carmine Red
Product Description: KICKIN Aster Carmine Red
Show-Off Color on a Well-Behaved, Compact Aster
Wow! That’s what You’ll say when you see the explosion of hot purply red flowers on this mounding, tidy aster. This is not your Grandma’s aster, those beloved native garden staples for the fall garden. No, this is an improved KICKIN variety and it stays small enough to edge your butterfly garden bed without any staking, fuss or muss.
Why plant asters? Well, gardeners who plan for the cooler autumn season are happy! Pair this fall-blooming aster with sedum, ornamental grasses, aronia, beautyberry, smoke bush, sumac and bluebeard for an outstanding fall display.
Asters are an important food resource for hungry butterflies at the end of the season. Monarchs start their epic migration in fall, and they are always on the hunt for new food sources. Because aster is a native plant, butterflies are perfectly suited to take full advantage of the nectar available from late summer all the way through the fall season.
Abundant KICKIN Carmine Red spicy colored blooms are a perfect foil for golden grasses, or the gorgeous burgundy and crimson foliage of nearby trees and shrubs. Layer these hot fall colors together as a spectacular backdrop for your football watch parties. You’ll want to plant these luscious asters in groups of 3, 5 or 7. They are most effective when massed into natural drifts at the edge of the bed.
Enjoy! But hurry, we will sell out of these quickly.
- Native butterfly resource
- Compact, improved variety
- High impact purply red
- Blooms late summer all the way through fall