Sorry Lilsprout, I certainly can not. I only have ongoing experience with a few named New England aster cultivars, though I have used "fall asters", latter with a New York aster or sometimes part New York ancestry. Speculation re the last picture: on the basis of brown disc florets and the (small) number of ray florets, it's a New York hybrid. I'm also assuming that there are more short New York aster cultivars available than New England ones, the latter plant typically being taller. However,'Purple Dome' is a New England cultivar. it's thick stem fits, as does it's yellow flat central disc (disc florets). I've not checked it's leaves, which to be typically New England, should be hairy (not smooth).

Sherry, Beautiful color combination. I took a male Pipevine out to release and they hung around a bit so I ran to get my iPad. I had released about 20 Pipevines. No eggs, after 2 days, no Pipevines flying. Finally today I started finding eggs. I got worried. But, I am relieved now.

I'm thinking that you are talking about perennial asters - Michaelmas daisies - and not annual China asters, Matoad. We have perennial asters in an out-of-the-way location and I haven't been paying attention to them for a few weeks - big mistake. They are covered with mildew and I really wonder whether this will be another year when they bloom very poorly and maybe not at all. This year, I began early spraying the snapdragons with Ortho Garden Disease Control along with the bug killer. Ortho used to call this stuff - Daconil. It is allowed by the feds to be used on our veggies but I wonÂt go that far. The snaps have continued to bloom nicely all Summer without rust showing up and destroying the plants in September. Why oh why didn't I walk around the side of the house and spray the Michaelmas daisies? It should have been enuf to slow the mildew down and permit a nice bloom. Annual asters did wonderfully in our garden and some plants began blooming way back in July. Of course, they are spent now and we are on to the annual asters planted out in mid-June. Still some nice color there despite a few frosts. Your question about the mums further implies that you are talking about the perennial species. I think it is far more likely that your problem with the asters is that mildew is damaging them. Cut them back for the Winter and hope for a better growing year in 07. You can also use a fungicide beginning mid-Summer to defend them from mildew if thatÂs the problem. Steve

I have always bought it. But I will be able to collect seed later.