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Ampelaster carolinianus |
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| | Last flower of the year |
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| | First flowers of the following year, late May |
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| | In its element in mid-October |
| Synonym(s) |
Aster carolinianus |
| Common name |
climbing aster |
| Family |
asteraceae |
| Life cycle |
woody perennial (Z6-10) |
| Flowers |
lavender |
| Size |
vine to 12' |
| Light |
sun |
Woody vine covered in lavender daisy flowers in autumn. Native to the southeastern United States. When I purchased mine, I wasn't sure it was going to work very well at our fence – it doesn't have a twining habit, suction cups, or any other obvious way to climb. Yet it happily took advantage of some wooden slats tacked to the fence as a make-shift trellis, and proceeded to grow almost entirely upward; I cut off the bits that want to extend too far forward. The fabulous flower show doesn't come till mid-October, but the rest of the growing season its green mass is still much nicer to look at than the privacy fence behind it.
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| | Growth spurt, early April |
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| | A bit of a mess after it was first planted from its nursery pot |
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| | A happy tangle in late summer of its second year |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border About my plant portraits
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