Krūminis astras – Aster dumosus

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Krūminis astras
Latin plant name	Aster dumosus L.
English plant name	Bushy Aster
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Borders Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Combination with woody plants Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	main
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	average wet soils dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous
Spacing, cm	From 20 to 25
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height short – 21-40 cm middle height – 41- 60 cm
Habitus	flower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	white red, red tints violet blue, blue tints purple
Blooming time	2-nd half of the summer - July Third Decade - August autumn - September - October
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	average decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	5
Group	short-lived perennial (grown 2-4 years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: scrub division and seeds, cuttings. Scrub is divided between April and early October. Asters propagated by scrub division and seeds grow at different speed and have different blooming time. Better to propagate by cuttings. Could be planted to the final growing place. Aster dumosus do not mature seeds in Lithuania. Imported seeds are sown in beds in May.