ASTER `KICKIN SAPPHIRE`

Category:Perennial
Hardiness Zone:4-8
Height:12-15 in
Spread:12-24 in
Bloom Color:Blue Shades
Foliage Color:Green Shades

This demonstrative fall bloomer is a compact, mounding plant that erupts with small, Daisy-like flowers that add spectacular color to your garden. Each deep lavender blossom is set off by a golden eye. Marvelous combined with Ornamental Grasses and Amsonia hubrechtii. PPAF

We count Asters among the great garden plants, because many of them hold off blooming until late summer and fall, when most garden plants are spent. Plants grow and flower best in full sun and evenly moist soil; they do not like drought.