Thursday, August 24, 2017

aster update

 The mystery aster is coming into full bloom, the older flowers fading to a paler shade. 


Professor Kippenburg is just starting:
 It might not be apparent from the photos which are slightly overexposed, but the Professor's flowers are more red-purple than the mystery aster.
 Soon to be in full bloom, maybe in a week or two.

2 comments:

  1. Is the mystery aster a volunteer, or from planting? I looked in your earlier post but no idea. A bushy purple aster just appeared in the mailbox island by my house, with thread-like leaves...I need to ID it. Definitely not the M. biglovii I recall here and there in the old hood.

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  2. The mystery aster is one I purchased as 'professor kippenburg', but clearly wasn't since it wasn't the same color. I actually liked the color more, so I bought it. It is almost certainly a "novie-belgi." My guess is that it is a seedling from the professor.

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