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Meg
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These are growing like wild all over the place in Pennsylvania, when we were home visiting our families.. tiny purple flowers.

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Plants: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 69.160.108.73
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Meg,
These look like Wild Asters
I have eveyone in the pictures in the article at the bottom...
I have them everywhere, I just love them, very hardy, very carefree, good fillers, if you let them go to seed, if you have reasonably fine, plyable soil they come out easily if you don't want them, even the bigger plants, the grow by runners under ground, where they set up roots on the runner, there's a good set of roots, but aren't too bad to pull out if nessessary!!!

The only one thing that may be negative about them is a bit of powdery mildew in some cases when it's hot and humid during a certain time in the season...

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Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.57
weezie13
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Here's some great info Bill's written up on them...
Growing Asters from TGH

Callistephus chinensis

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Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.57
Meg
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Oh, that's so cool! I liked them very much when I saw them all over the place. So delicate, and pretty. I can't believe they are in the aster family.. I hadn't even considered that when I saw them. Neat!

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Plants: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 69.160.108.73
Carly
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We see a lot of asters around here in the west end of Toronto - they come out in early autumn.

I grabbed some dead heads - I'd like to get some going.

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Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004  |  Seeded: 209.135.109.85
MissJamie
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i had been wondering what these are! i just took a walk about an hour ago and decided to pluck on and bring it in the house and hopefully find what it was and i did! lol [Big Grin] anybody know how to get seed from it??

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Plants: 2003 | From: Madison Heights,Va | Registered: Aug 2004  |  Seeded: 205.188.116.71
   

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