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Calico aster in the Peacock Garden at Great Dixter
I’ve yet to work out quite how asters (well, Symphiotrichum in this case) get around a fairly reliable garden design principle – to whit, too many small flowers and/or leaves can make a border look unduly busy. Perhaps it’s that, by the time mid September comes around, we’re so eager for colour and flower in the garden before the whole place goes dark, we just don’t really care any more, but the prospet of massed daisies never strikes me as anything other than a thing to smile at. Unless undergirded by a scaffold of mildewy foliage, though thankfully, the ever-reliable Symphiotrichum lateriflorum var. horizontalis (the calico aster) doesn’t seem to suffer from that problem.
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