Saw the potted New England Asters blooming and bringing on the butterflies so ended up taking some photos and trying one final attempt to try to get SOMETHING sold from the greenhouse before season's end. Still $5 per 1-gal potted plant as they were in spring. Gonna just quote from the business page from here;
"It's Aster season, and with it even the native species take the charge. The New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) is a pretty easy-grow species among them.
Grows well in moist sunny gardens, it can also do decent in part sun and slightly drier locations once established. Beautiful purple masses of flowers from mid-august at earliest till frost cracks down a hard night in October at latest, bigger plants will attempt to flower for longer. One of the best late season nectar flowers for pollinators of all sorts with one of its few autumn flowering rivals for pollinator-magnet being the Goldenrod, which often look really gorgeous together.
Can become a little tall and lanky but is easily shorted a bit with a mid summer prune shortening or two with little fuss about it on their part."
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New England Aster - October 2022
These fall wildflowers called a New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) were popping up all along the bike trail in early October. They are beautiful close up.
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Symphyotrichum Workout
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (Calico Aster) on 10-9-22, #916-11.
Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. The past week has been fairly cool and it finally rained. This is a perfect time of the year to get dirty and do some fall cleanup.
One of the most baffling genera of plants on the farm has been the Symphyotrichum. Even pronouncing it can be a challenge. It’s…
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 28 September 2023
The cultivar Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Pötschke' (New England aster, hairy michaelmas daisy) has vivid pink flowers with yellow centres providing a vibrant show in early autumn. This vigorous plant has a good resistance to mildew.
Jill Raggett
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Field of goldenrod, pokeweed berries, jewelweed, evening primrose, more goldenrod with I think echinacea, a gall I found on goldenrod, and a plant I never identified.
I took these all in Western MA in early September. I'm terrible with Latin names and since I only do this casually I get by fine with common names. I really love identifying the plants around me it brings me a lot of joy.
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Addition from the botanists here - picture 5 shows New England aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, which is a New England native. I have bad news for you on the last one, though. That appears to be purple loosestrife, which, although pretty, is a highly invasive species often classified as a noxious weed.
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Last time I tried this it loaded forever and nothing happened. So let's try again:
Oenothera speciosa (pink evening primrose)
Gaillardia xgrandiflora (blanket flower)
Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives)
Rubus allegheniensis (Allegheny blackberry)
Drymocallis arguta (tall cinquefoil)
Armeria maritima (thrift seapink)
Erigeron glabellus (streamside fleabane)
Aquilegia canadensis (Canada columbine)
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
Erigeron philadelphicus (Philadelphia fleabane)
Lupinus polyphyllus (bigleaf lupine)
Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower)
Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio spiderwort)
Taraxacum officinale (dandelion)
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf)
Fragaria vesca (woodland strawberry)
Phlox divaricata (woodland phlox)
Cerastium arvense (field chickweed)
Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)
Trillium cuneatum (sweet little Betsy)
Zizia aurea (Golden alexanders)
Calctha palustris (marsh marigold)
Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not)
Trillium erectum (red wakerobin)
Uvularia grandiflora (largeflower bellwort)
Heliopsis helianthoides (sweet oxeye)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)
Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)
Cirsium discolor (field thistle)
And the rest will have to wait because tumblr cut me off. lol
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Some purple and gold. My favourite autumn combo. Was thinking of drawing/painting it, but that's a bit above my energy/skill.
Clematis tangutica & Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
September 8th, 2022
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New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Asteraceae
Photograph taken on October 10, 2021, along the Etobicoke Creek, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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Six On Saturday-Short Walk on the Wild Side
Six On Saturday-Short Walk on the Wild Side
Asclepias hirtella (Tall Green Milkweed)
Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. We had a nice week with temperatures not too unbearable at all. I took a walk through the hayfield a couple of days ago to check on the progress of the Elephantopus carolinianus in the back of the farm. It always amazes me how some wildflowers start growing like mad after the hay is cut.
#1-Asclepias hirtella…
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