Ideally, you should cultivate your aster seeds indoors and transplant them in the spring to ... stretch back to the ancient ...

So next year, when I'm planning my flower beds, I’ll plant China aster seed. ----- Gerald Burke is a travel and horticultural writer who lives in southern California.

Aster season is coming to an end here in Zone 5, but don’t cut down those drying stalks just yet, says John Magee. A garden designer based in Middleburg, Va., John is a leader of the native plant ...