i'm not sure if i've ever seen them.. do you have any pics

Hi thorn grower, Michaelmas daisies are perennial Asters, DH is not home at the moment to show me how to post a pic soooo, google Old Court Nurseries Images lots of great pics, these daisies are my favorite flowers from late summer on till frost takes them out.

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Well!! perrenial asters you say. yes i'm very familiar with them here.. i have a red can't remember the name, i got it from my mother, and i have a short mid purple. well these two have crossed in my garden ..holy cow.. i have pink i have red purple i have dark purple etc. there eating my garden alive..there quite beautiful in the fall.. i need to do some digging this year.thanks for getting back to me.........

Mine have never seeded all over and I leave the seedheads on for the birds in the fall. I do have to dig and divide every third year though, I also have mine in a seperate bed,which is mulched with newspaper and wood shavings to keep the weeds down. They still are one of my favorite flowers.

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the red one i have has never self seeded in my garden, but when it crossed with the purple, wow i pull them out like weeds.. my sister wondered for years why her's weren't self seeding, so i pointed out to her that she was pulling them out thinking they were weeds..they really do look like weeds when they first sprout. i'll check out the web site. thanks so much