Annual Asters for the garden border

Posted in Annuals, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography on Nov 30, 2008

Well it seems that my garden has finally got the message that winter is coming.

There are still some stubborn roses sticking around, but they are no longer alive. The cold got to them and they are just there. Actually I’m hoping that I can take some pictures of them with frost or a light coating of snow on them one of these days as I think that will probably look pretty.

There’s also one single clematis flower on the vine at the front of the house. Like the roses it’s dead, but it’s still holding it’s color. I’m sure it fooled a few people that might have noticed it.

Since I don’t have any pictures of frosty flowers or snow covered plants to show you today I’ll have to fall back on pictures that I took earlier this summer.

One flower that stands out is the annual asters that I grew this summer. They were so pretty! Such vibrant dusty rose pinks, purples, blue and white flowers.

They started blooming in late July (if memory serves me) and continued to produce lovely blooms until early October.

The annual Aster plants are 12 inches or less in height so they are the perfect size for a garden border. I planted several of them in the open spaces at the edge of my raised garden beds, beside lavenders and hostas and they looked lovely.

Did you grow Asters this past summer?

6 Responses to “ Annual Asters for the garden border ”

# 1 Canna Tropicana Bloom | You are in My World Now (10 comments.) Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 12:02 am
[...] realized that I never posted a photo of any of my cannas in bloom on any of the blogs that I do Green Thumb Sunday on. Perhaps I never posted a photo because I have so few from this past [...]
# 2 Digital Polaroids (9 comments.) Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Beautiful flower, it looks like a crisantemo.
# 3 Ladynred (15 comments.) Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Beautiful flower. Love the color.
# 4 Lythrum (3 comments.) Says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I love the picture of the aster. This is the first year that I planted them and I’m wondering what took me so long.
# 5 Shady Gardener (24 comments.) Says:
December 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Tricia, Don’t get discouraged about GTS. I think Many people post but do not return to tell you about it. Mine is up for today. Only one little photo.
# 6 matchedResigned to winter’s arrival | Tricia's Musings ( comments.) Says:
December 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
[...] I was just saying on my gardening blog, my plants have finally realized that winter is just about here and have reluctantly gone into [...]

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