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All about asters (Michaelmas daisies) and how to grow the September birth flower | House & Garden
24.09.2024 - 04:13 / houseandgarden.co.uk / Hazel Sillver
Aster ‘Mönch’ at the gardens of St Giles House in Dorset
Producing clouds of colourful daisies during the autumn months, whilst the majority of the garden is browning into hibernation, asters are stalwart perennials. The most dazzling of the vast range available are the lilac and blue forms, which glow incredible hues beneath the grey skies and sit so well with autumn’s golden grasses. The soft-pink forms are also beautiful, providing warmth when the weather cools and the perfect foil for falling copper leaves.
Within the 600 or so species and umpteen hybrids of aster, there are also darker shades of pink and purple, as well as white forms, and the plants produce a great range of structure: including upright, bushy, dense, and airy options; some tall and some short. They bloom over a long period, sometimes from August into November, providing hoverflies, bees, and butterflies with vital nectar before winter sets in. Since the peak of this flowering occurs around the feast of Archangel Michael in late September, they are commonly known as Michaelmas daisies. Hence the old rhyme rings, ‘The Michaelmas daisy, among dead weeds, Blooms for St Michael’s valorous deeds. And seems the last of flowers that stood, Till the feast of St Simon and St Jude.’ The latter feast day is held on 28 October, when many asters are still blooming away.
The name ‘aster’ is the Ancient Greek word for star and given because the radiate petals of the flowers give them a starry look. In mythology, they grew when Asteria, the Greek goddess of the stars and the mother of Hecate, wept tears of stars from the night sky. In the old world, the plants were ceremonially burnt at the end of autumn, as the smoke was believed to cast out evil spirits and flush
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