A bit more information: Mums and asters make great long-lasting cut flowers. Grow extra plants to insure you have plenty to cut and enjoy indoors.
Pick these and other flowers in the morning or evening when the plants are full of moisture. Recut stems right before placing them in a clean vase filled with water. Keep the vase full of water and your flowers will provide more than a week of enjoyment.
Learn More. My Split-level lacks character Another difference is that deer love mums but are not very interested in asters. One of the longest blooming perennials is Gaillardia 'Fanfare', from spring to fall, but the colors--yellow and orange--might not work for you.
Another long bloomer that might work is Geranium 'Rozeanne', blue blossoms from late spring until hard freeze. It's a weaver, not a mounder, so be sure you understand its growth habit. Based on foliage alone, mums have the edge IMO. Foliage is lovely, neat and tidy all season and disease-free. There are also smaller asters that have nice mounding foliage. I got some labeled as Buddleia, so I don't know their name. They stay under 2 ft tall and form a real nice mound.
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Thanks for any insight! Email Save Comment 5. Sort by: Oldest. What's your go-to fall flower? Do you buy mums every year, or do you have fall-blooming perennials in your garden?
By Southern Living August 05, Save FB Tweet More. All rights reserved. There are garden mums perennials and florist mums annuals. In short, there probably is a mum that can please just about anyone. And then there are the asters. Another fall bloomer most of them, anyway that provides a bright splash of color when much of the garden is winding down for the season and half of us are either depressed because it's over while the other half is welcoming the break.
The blooms come in large and small. Purple, magenta, blue, pink, and white are just about it for color. But they have their strong points, too. Asters are generally hardy through zone 4, with some even surviving zone 3 winters just fine.
Mums are supposed to be hardy through zone 5, but that can be rather iffy. For a nicely-shaped mum in the fall that has the maximum number of blooms, continual pinching back of the growth tips until the 4th of July is recommended, while asters don't really need this. They are just naturally beautiful all on their own.
You can pinch them back a couple of times if you want to though, for a bushier plant come fall. I personally have this love affair going on with asters right now, because I've not had the best of luck with mums surviving our winters here.
I have yet to lose a single aster. To be fair, once I started following the recommendation of providing good drainage for my mums and not cutting them back in the fall, I haven't lost any of those either. But you'll hear me give a whoop of joy in the spring when I see they've made it through another winter. You just never know. There are other purple asters blooming behind those. It's unbelievable how fast the asters grow. I planted 'Wood's Blue' last year as a quart-sized plant.
It now takes up a space of nearly three square feet, is completely covered in blooms, and has gobbled up the 'Edith Wharton' iris. I'll move the iris next spring. The daisy mums, like 'Clara Curtis,' 'Bolero' shown at left , and 'Rhumba,' are super reliable for me and I highly recommend them if you have trouble keeping mums around.
But in my quest to make gardening easier, I'm focusing on asters for adding some fall color this year. In the last couple of years, I've searched for white asters and for some reason couldn't find any in our local garden centers. I found some alpines, which bloom in late spring, but I wanted some white fall asters. Yesterday I finally found some, at Lowe's.
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