Color Wheel Stokesia (Stokes Aster) – 5 Pack Of Quart Pots

A super easy to grow and long lived North American native perennial, Color Wheel Stokes Aster aims to please both you and the butterflies and beneficial pollinators all summer long and into fall with large, shaggy, aster-like flowers that open white and age to shades of pink and purple with various colors showing on the plant at the same time, hence the name ‘Color Wheel’. 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, Color Wheel is 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, Color Wheel 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

Color Wheel 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 Zones 5 and 6 we suggest a layer of mulch for insulation during winter.