Aster tataricus 24/10 Restock This double-flowered ornamental form

This double-flowered ornamental form

and corymbosum describes the loose

though the shrub tolerates part shade

Photos courtesy of Mike Creech and Bob Stelloh

The Latin name

Aster tataricus 24/10 Restock This double-flowered ornamental formMost asters have quit by the time Tatarian aster gets started. Aster tataricus opens in late September and keeps going through October and into November, still looking fresh at the first frost, on stems that stand five or six feet without a stake. The flowers are small, barely an inch across, lavender blue with a yellow eye, but they arrive in flat topped clusters by the hundred, and at that height they read as a haze of color at eye level rather than