Wild Way: Gardening with Wildlife by Jack Wallington

Wild Way: Gardening with Wildlife by Jack Wallington

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13 Asters for naturalistic gardens
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13 Asters for naturalistic gardens

I continue down the aster rabbit hole to find airy but colourful asters with some success and some failures

Oct 04, 2024
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I’m looking at the little pose of asters on my desk thinking, ‘how did it come to this?’ The pale lavender of some remind me of talcum powder and blue rinse hair dye. I promised myself once to never like asters, and yet, here we are, not only liking them, but loving them.

It started with Eurybia, drifted into the wild garden escapees seen along roadsides and train tracks. Welcoming their ragged colour in October when everything else is finishing. Then I fell head over heels for the bold purple ‘Violetta’.

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