What's blooming now?

[MissMoustache]

Originally Posted by GoDawgs

I have some pass-along plants from a friend. She didn't know what they were because the person she got them from didn't know. They're just starting to bloom.





I'm guessing they're some kind of aster, perhaps because of the time of year they're blooming. I've not grown asters before. This patch started as a very small clump in fall '16 that my sister grew off in a 3 gallon pot for a year. They then filled that pot so this spring she divided and planted them out.

If they're asters, should I have cut them back sometime during the summer to keep them from getting so leggy and gangly? Or is that the nature of the beast?

Looks like asters to me.

I cut back my asters about midsummers day (mid June) Same time as hardy mums for a more compact mounded look. Blooms will be later though.