Re: dwarf aster

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• To: prairie@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: dwarf aster
• From: o*@htc.net (Lisa Flaum)
• Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 07:24:37 -0600

  Hi folks,

Do any of you out there have familiarity with native cultivars?  The
conversation below is from Alpine-L, the rock garden list.  Any help you
could give would be appreciated.

Thanks, Lisa


 >       Has anyone had any experience with, or know the origin of Aster
ericoides
>'Schneegitter'.  This has been a fabulous addition to the rock
>garden...only 6" tall and grows like a heather.  I'm having no luck in
>tracing the history of this plant.  Any help would be appreciated.

>Hi Tony,
'>Thousands but it is
>3 or 4 feet high which is an other story than your 6 inches. So what
>happened there .......
>It is indeed a lovely autumn-flowering plant with massa's of small white
>flowers.
>Herman



>
>        Now I'm really confused.  I have now seen A. 'Schneegitter' at three US
>nurseries and it is all this low growing aster.  I guess we can assume that
>it all came from one original source which I think we have identified, but
>what in the world do we have?  Do you know of such an aster as I described?
>
>


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