Aster ‘Monch’

Rated one of the top perennials of all time for color, flower power, and easy care. If you ever see a more attractive, longer-blooming Aster than Monch, buy it at once! Garden experts agree that it is one of the all-time great performers, sending up gorgeous flowers over an astoundingly long season. And such flowers, Perfect blue daisies, 1 1/2 inches across and packed with skinny petals around a handsome chartreuse eye, they complement all the pinks, reds, and whites of the garden, and last a long time on the plant or in the vase.

Beginning in midsummer and continuing until hard frost, this modest little 2-foot plant is dotted with cheerful blooms. Asking only full sun and well-drained soil, it needs no special treatment, though if you pinch it back in the spring and once more about a month later, you’ll get even more flowers. Like all hardy Asters, Monch is long-lived and essentially trouble-free — the only difference being its bloom season, which is almost TWICE that of its cousins Blue flowers are always welcome in the garden and in arrangements, and there is no easier nor more plentiful source than Monch. I firmly believe that this plant belongs in any garden with 2 feet of sunshine to spare.

And once you begin enjoying the blooms, you’ll agree.Space the plants 15 to 18 inches apart. To keep the flowering super-profuse, divide the plants every 3 to 4 years.

Zones 5-9.