Bloody Great Asters

[ursulav]

Well, we had a hard rain and knocked the giant willowleaf asters flat. I don’t know why anybody wants a six-foot-tall aster anyway, except that I apparently do. Show me a native plant that gets eight feet tall and I will hand you my wallet, grab the pot, and run giggling down the street.

It’s a bit of a problem, I grant you.

This one was grown up

Comments

[neowolf2]

The salvia should realize that's the * it takes, growing at your place.

[bleodswean]

Yes, gorgeous. Gorgeous.

[fatfred]

I live in flatland suburbia.
YEARN!

[pickledginger]

My asters are only three feet tall, and spindly.
*sulks*

But! The bees still love them. And they haven't fallen down.
*sidles over to block from view the one plant that is standing horizontally*

I love gardening. :-)

[tassie_gal]

Got to love the plants on steroids. At my old place the artichoke was triffad like. When I bought it it was in a small pot about 2" in diameter. When I left the plant was nearly as tall as me at over 5' and huge. I used to hack it down every year to nothing and it would grow back bigger and better.
It was like the poppies. I planted one tiny little bed of them the first year in the house. 6 years later when I left, the whole garden would be taken over by them AND they were marching down the street.

[laughingbadger]

My delightful little linaria (looks like tiny snapdragons, originally from Morocco) explode in spring and if it's a damp year will gleefully colonize any unattended area. They're pretty, inoffensive, and as long as someone doesn't mow them they're great little flowers. Every color and blend of yellows, pinks, magenta, lavender and violet. I love them

[tassie_gal]

I know the flower. We call them candy pops. They are gorgeous.