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'Alert' Aster is a member of the famous dwarf aster group. Growing a dwarf aster is one of the very best ways you can assure some fall blooms for your meadow or garden. They are simple to handle and hardy as oaks. 'Alert' Aster stays short, and will fill it's space with a neat, low green tuft that bursts into bloom in late summer with deep purple to crimson, starry flowers. After about two years, you can dig up two or three plants, and divide them into twenty...and then replant yourself a huge patch, or have yards of edging.
The dwarf Aster dumosis (now Symphyotrichum dumosum) hybrids resulted from a cross between wild Aster nova novi-belgii, the much taller New York Aster, with another wild aster from the Pacific northwest.
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Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 10 reviews.
Review topics: ["color","buy","plants","flowers","grew","bush"].
"This plant grew and flowered with no problems. I am very pleased with this purchase."
"Very beautiful color. Grew nice and round. Will recommend this grower to family and friends. Will buy again."
"It bloomed nicely in the fall and I was very happy with it."
"I placed these between the wine and roses bushes and they bloomed and looked really pretty, although they are still little they will get big each year and will be a gorgeous fit. Aster grows well and blooms in the fall, gorgeous bush."
"Of course, most of us want our plants to arrive like they look in the catalog. When they get there and are as small as they are, it's always a little underwhelming. Long-term it's better to arrive this size because the root system will be that much better once they do get to the size we all "want". I didn't know much about aster's at the time and made the mistake of not knowing they were more of a fall flower. This is completely fine I just didn't understand what I was purchasing. They are doing great now!"
"Very easy to grow, good size blooms the first fall. Seems to be spreading nicely this year."
"I planted this last spring and by fall the plants were large and covered in blooms. My only disappointment was that the flowers were definitely purple and not at all red. They were pretty, but I really wanted red."
"A very pretty plant with very pretty flowers. . . grew in no time. I have it in a clay pot and that seams to work well on the deck in morning sun. would buy more!"
"Even though the color did not match the photo,it is still beautiful! LOADED with blooms!"
"easy to grow"
