This gorgeous, late summer-to-early fall bloomer grows in our White Border.

Farrand used this Northeastern native aster in her planting designs, weaving it right into English-style cottage borders. Today, it is starting to become available at native plant nurseries with the resurgence of the native plant movement, and you can find it gracefully growing wild in the Hudson Valley. This is a very important pollinator plant, listed on PollinateHV, and a supremely graceful, delicate beauty for dry to medium soils in sun or shade. Beautiful in a sunny flower garden, or interplanted with ferns on a woodland’s edge.