Gardeners can either prune asters in the fall or not—it's a personal choice. Fall pruning creates a tidier yard and limits disease and pest infestation. Leaving asters unpruned produces a natural ...

Asters are gorgeous members of the daisy family that light up the autumn landscape with their white, purple, or blue blooms, and they provide an excellent source of food for wildlife. If you cut back ...

Asters are have blue or purple daisy-like fall blooms that appear as many summer flowers fade. Once asters fade, flowerheads can be left to seed, or can be cut back to the ground to clean up the ...

Move over, mums! There’s another beautiful autumn bloomer that belongs in your garden. Not only do asters look fabulous, but they also provide late season food for pollinators such as butterflies and ...

Instead of pruning your dead aster flowers to prepare for the colder months ahead, leave them alone and bask in your feathered friends' appreciation.

Move over, chrysanthemums, there’s another beautiful autumn bloomer that belongs in your garden. Not only do asters look fabulous, but they also provide late season food for pollinators such as ...

Pruning is an important task to help ensure plant health and keep the perennial garden thriving. In my work as a professional gardener, I try to observe the recommended guidelines for pruning shrubs ...

Fall is the time of year when we start thinking about putting the garden to bed and letting it take a nice long rest. But not so fast! There is still plenty to be done to prep your garden for winter.

A gardener’s work is never done! No matter the season, your location, or how you garden, there are four main categories of chores throughout the year: Soil, Propagate-Plant, Maintain, and Prune.