Astra Kustarnikka Profa Anton Kippenberg, rr I, 1 pc, spring 2025

Astra is one of the most popular plants. Many types and varieties of asters differ in the height, coloring, flowering time, as well as the features of care and use. Conditionally, they can be divided into high and medium-sized asters for flower beds and into stunted asters for rocky slides and low borders. Asters are so diverse in terms of flowering time that you can choose varieties that replace each other in flowering from June to November. At the same time, caring for them is minimal. All asters grow rapidly, so every 3-4 years they are better to share and plant them. Location: in a sunny, warm place, does not tolerate dry soil. Soil: prefers fresh, fertilized soils, does not tolerate heavy soils! Planting: Plants are planted at a distance of 20-40 cm from each other so that young underground shoots are covered with a soil with a layer of 2-3 cm. Flowering: from June to November. Using: they look beautiful in group plantings on lawns, rocky areas and slides, suitable for cuts, especially tall varieties. Astra is shrubby - a perennial herbaceous plant with erect, very branched, pubescent stems up to 50 cm high, forming almost hemispherical bushes. The leaves are sedentary, lanceolate, dark green, numerous. It blooms very abundantly in August-September 35-40 days. Fruiting. Type of frost. It grows poorly in dry and hot places, does not tolerate raw places. Soils are necessary fertile, alkaline, solar location. Under good growing conditions, large areas can cover. With cheese and cold summer, flowering is reduced. Propagated by division of the bush (often in the spring), underground rooted shoots, cuttings. Prof. Anton Kippenberg-plant height 40 cm, saturated-lilac flowers.