THE flowering of Aster novi-belgii or Michaelmas daisy in my garden, a big mauve sister to the common little white daisy, was timely, occurring as it did around the September 29, the feast day of St ...

Michaelmas daisies look great in autumn, with their stems studded with daisy flowers in pink, purple or white, each with a lush golden centre. Michaelmas daisies look great in autumn, with their stems ...

Q: What are Michaelmas daisies? My mother used to grow them, and I can’t find them in the nurseries. A: I think I first heard the term Michaelmas daisy in a PBS mystery — didn’t Agatha Christie’s Miss ...

Autumn is usually the season of daisies in my garden but something seems to have gone wrong this year. The Michaelmas daisies are there of course – no power on earth or elsewhere will get rid of those ...

Where would we be without daisies? Even if their blaze of tiny flowers drives lawn perfectionists mad in spring, come September their big cousins, Michaelmas daisies, are more than welcome. North ...

Q: My grandsons and I have a wildflower bed. Every spring we sow packets of wildflower seeds for butterflies and bees. This plant has become a large bush and blooms in the fall. Bees love it. Can you ...

Michaelmas daisies – or asters as they are also known – are wonderful as the summer comes to an end. They aren’t showy plants but are often cheerfully beautiful, sometimes sublime and always great for ...

Perennials go in and out of fashion, but nothing seems to dull the appeal of Michaelmas daisies, if only because they flower in September and October. They make excellent cut flowers, too. The vast ...

There is something old-fashioned about Michaelmas daisies; something unpretentious and unflashy. But I like their autumnal gaiety and would always want them in any garden of mine. By this time of year ...

I have always had a thing against asters, or Michaelmas daisies. Their plain central disk, with the petals whorled obviously around it, have a certain charm but I've always found this daisy flower too ...