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A super easy to grow, tough as nails but beautiful and long lived North American native perennial, Honeysong Purple Stokes Aster aims to please both you and the butterflies and beneficial pollinators all summer long and into fall with her large, true royal purple aster-like flowers. The flowers are also excellent for cutting and use in floral arrangements. A vigorous grower forming a dense mound in full to mostly sunny sites. A great garden performer that will bring you many years of enjoyment with almost no maintenance required.

Growing in a mound 12 to 15 inches tall and 15 to 18 inches wide, Honeysong Purple Stokes Aster is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces and large mixed container gardens and is truly breathtaking in groupings, mass plantings or as a low border in perennial gardens or along paths and walkways. A fine addition to butterfly gardens, beneficial pollinator gardens, native plant gardens, cut flower gardens, cottage gardens and purple theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  15 to 18 inches apart for mass plantings; 36 inches apart for space between plants

Honeysong Purple Stokes Aster is exceptionally easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average to even low fertility in full to mostly sun. We suggest at least 5 hours of direct sun for best flowering. As with many other perennial plants, constantly soggy or wet soils can be problematic. Heavy, dense clay soils should be amended with organic matter to improve drainage. Plant with the top of the root ball even with ground level. Care and maintenance are minimal. Deadheading spent flowers isn't necessary however will encourage reblooming into fall. Feed in spring with an organic plant food. In USDA Zoners 5 and 6 we suggest a layer of mulch for insulation during winter.