There's nothing like climbing aster and what it brings to the garden, being one of the treasured fall bloomers that are such a refreshing joy during the transition from sweltering summer to bleak brown winter.  The garden gets a second wind when this and other autumn flowering plants, like Helianthus salicifolius Table...

Early autumn blue mist flowers are cherished alike by pollinators and their human companions. In North Georgia, Conoclinium coelestinum cues the flowers in late September with a long prelude of buds waiting to burst. Come the first week of October, blue hints appear and burst into flowers that last through...

We like Table Mountain willow-leaved sunflower because it's significantly more compact (1-2' tall) than the typical species (8' tall). This means you can actually see the flowers on Table Mountain because they're at knee-level rather than towering over you in the stratosphere like with other perennial and annual sunflowers. The...