Aster Plug Plants

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Long vase life. Direct seed - After last frost. Easy to harvest due to the well-branched plant's open airy habit.

Bloom size avg. Direct seed - After last frost. Provide support. Also known as summer aster. Row covers help prevent spread of disease by leafhoppers.Support, such as horizontal mesh (Hortonova) is recommended.

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Tower features uniform bloom time and plant height across the series and mix.

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Tower features uniform bloom time and plant height across the series and mix.

A perfectly gorgeous aster with aromatic leaves and visiting butterflies, the plants produce a splendid show in autumn. Easy to grow in full sun, with other native plants and deer resistant.

Start indoors and transplant when they're about 3" tall. Attracts butterflies. This aster provides a striking mix of colors: white, pink, purple and shades in between.

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Tower features uniform bloom time and plant height across the series and mix.

Space 12-18" apart. Each plant has 8-10 long, strong, upright stems topped by giant, fully double frilly flowers 5" across in a blend of blue, cerise, rose-pink and white asters.

It's a dwarf cultivar that typically grows to be 18-24" tall and up to 3' wide, and sports purple 1 1/2" flowers with yellow centers. Butterflies love it. The glory of autumn, this aster is native to much of eastern North America and is widely adapted...

Packet: 100 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Semidouble 1–1 1/2" blooms in red, rose, deep rose, scarlet, blue, white, and blue-tipped and rose-tipped whites.

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Tower features uniform bloom time and plant height across the series and mix.

Packet: 50 seeds.Transplant (recommended) - Sow 1/8" deep in flats indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Tower features uniform bloom time and plant height across the series and mix.

Last fall, when asters were blooming beautifully, I was searching for some dwarf mums my mom gave me and which I knew I planted in that flower bed. The Invaders, coming as asters in my flower bed and trying to take over, replacing all the plants they...

New York Aster prefer moist thickets, meadows or lightly shaded woodlands. Lasting into fall and even withstanding frosts, this native aster attracts all types of butterflies, birds, and bees to your garden and is a great way to provide nectar to pollinators...

Bred for resistance to rusts, mildews, and other diseases brought on by humidity, 'Wood's Purple' prefers full sun and average to moist soils. Deep green foliage stays healthy and lush throughout the season on this hardy and long-lasting plant.

Aster October Skies does prefer drier soils in the winter. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Aster October Skies plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system...

Bio-tone is a gardener's best friend and can help guarantee your success. It creates a barrier between the roots of the plant and fungus and pathogens that can cause root rot. A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was...

Flowers all summer long. Intensely fragrant pure white-flowering lavender.

Noted for soothing irritations and inflammations of the skin, throat, eyes, lungs and urinary organs.

Sweet, anise-scented leaves and stalks (fresh or dried) add delightful flavour to sweets and desserts, saving about half the sugar. Of particular interest to diabetics.

Large, succulent, slightly acid-tasting leaves give zest to salads and any dish which is insipid in itself. Blonde de Lyon is the standard variety esteemed in France. Most famous for sorrel soup.

Neat compact growth habit. Absolutely delightful lemon scent.

For tender foliage, grow this mint in partial shade and cut often to keep the young leaves coming. Quite the sensation in salads! Just pick the leaves, strip them from the stems, and throw them liberally into your salad mix.

Excellent for massing, as ground cover or in rockeries. Does not attract cats despite its stronger, more pleasant scent. (Catmint) Smaller ornamental form of catnip with lavender-blue flowers and grey-white foliage.

Used by Amerindians for diarrhea; also for headaches, stomachache, menstrual problems. Also for ceremonial smudging. Lovely white ghost-like flowers; attractive silver foliage; excellent for dried arrangements.

Anywhere where you need to create a new sensation. Try it in candies, cookies, cakes, salads, seafood... Richters holds exclusive propagation rights in Canada. It possesses a superb sweet lime aroma with all sorts of possibilities for the kitchen.

Like most mints, applemint can threaten the garden with too much of a good thing, and in its optimum growing conditions of part shade and moist soil will quickly introduce itself to neighbouring beds and lawns.