Garden Plant: October Skies Aster
October Skies Aster
Product Description: October Skies Aster
Must-Have Selection for Fall Butterfly Garden
Asters are an extremely important nectar source for butterflies late in the season. Showy, long-lived blooms feed hungry animals from late summer, through fall up to frost.
But it’s not just about the butterflies. (Are you kidding? Of course, it’s all about the butterflies… . ) There are some amazing visual benefits that October Skies Aster (Aster oblongifolius/ Symphytrichum oblongifolium \’October Skies’) delivers to your late season landscape.
First of all, let’s talk about those open, inviting, tender, lavender blue blooms, which are shaped like a delicate daisy. They feature a sweet yellow spotlight right in the center, which can be kind of hard to see, due to the sheer number of butterflies flitting from flower to flower.
It’s one of the last plants to bloom in the season, and it usually in full swing after the worst of the summer heat has passed. Smart gardeners plan for fall, because they know they’ll LOVE entertaining outside surrounded by flowers, “flying flowers” without breaking a sweat.
This is a dwarf variety, much more compact than the species. It won’t flip or flop on you. It stays put, and blooms it’s head off for you. This has a mounding habit, so you could place it near the edge of garden beds or use it as the “filler” in containers.
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