{"id":11048,"date":"2011-10-02T02:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:03:44","slug":"michaelmas-daisies-and-asters-from-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/michaelmas-daisies-and-asters-from-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaelmas Daisies and Asters From Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"October Aster \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6200346849\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6161\/6200346849_c019abbf2b.jpg\" alt=\"October Aster\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAster &#8216;Composition&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Michaelmas Daisies are hardy perennials flowering late in the summer in a range of bright colours. Aster novi-belgi and Aster novae-angliae are both called Michaelmas Daisies and mixed together make a contrasting rich colour range of long stemmed autumnal flowers suitable for cutting.<\/p>\n<h3>Growing Instructions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Germinate seeds between February and July at 68-86F on the surface of a good free draining, damp seed compost.<\/li>\n<li>Do not cover seed. Do not exclude light at any stage, as this helps germination.<\/li>\n<li>Place in a propagator or seal container inside a polythene bag until after germination which usually takes 21-100 days.<\/li>\n<li>Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle into trays or 3in pots. Grow on in cooler, well lit conditions before planting out 12&#8243; apart after all risk of frost has gone.<\/li>\n<li>Clumps of Michaelmas Daisies will develop over the years and can be split to increase the best plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Aster by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6166357016\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6152\/6166357016_97a98edb31.jpg\" alt=\"Aster\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other sources<\/strong><br \/>\nMichaelmas Asters <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/michaelmas-asters\/\">29th September <\/a><br \/>\nMichaelmas Daisies and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/michaelmas-daisies-and-plants-from-childhood\/\">Plants from Childhood<\/a><br \/>\nSeeds from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=Aster\">Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning &#8220;star&#8221; referring to the daisy like shape of the flower head. They are in the family Asteraceae part of the Daisy clan. There are 500+ species of Aster and many variety of hybrids that are popular as garden plants because of their attractive and colourful flowers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aster-frikeratti-monch-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"aster-frikeratti-monch-c\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aster-frikeratti-monch-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aster-frikeratti-monch-c.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/aster-frikeratti-monch-c-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aster frikartii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaelmas Daisies are hardy perennials flowering late in the summer in a range of bright colours.  Aster novi-belgi and Aster novae-angliae are both called Michaelmas Daisies and mixed together make a contrasting rich colour range of long stemmed autumnal flowers suitable for cutting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}