We've waited a long time to be able to offer the lovely Stokes's Aster from seed! This bright blue flower with elegantly rayed petals is long-lasting in the garden or vase, and a great source of late summer to fall color for the sunny perennial garden. One of the best native plants, it's a "must-have" for the garden! Now you can grow it at a fraction of what you'd pay for plants!

These blooms reach 3 to 4 inches across on sturdy stems just made for cutting. You'll want to grow a few extra plants just for use in indoor arrangements! But if you do leave blooms on the plant (and who can resist, when they look so splendid in the midsummer-to-fall garden?), be sure to deadhead them. That will bring new blooms even faster!

Stokes's Aster reaches 2 feet tall and about 18 inches wide, thriving in normal to sandy soils. It doesn't like heavy, wet, or clay-ey soils, but is otherwise carefree and easy to grow. Native to the southeastern United States, it is a superb performer in the arid southwest and far west as well as just about everywhere else gardeners need a little true-blue color!

Space plants 15 to 18 inches apart. Pkt is 10 seeds.