Peachie’s Pick Stokes Aster

It is a Different World Here in Zone 5

| Flower Roberts

I brought up some ‘Lucifer’ Crocosmias to put in our mountain garden, because the deer never ate the blooms in our Zone 7 gardens.


The night before the planned photo shoot featuring a perfectly shaped stand,  the deer here came through and beheaded most of the clump.

Mostly beheaded Lucifer

There is a new type of slug here. Great!



I will be switching to blogging about nature instead of battling it when I fully recover. I have been at war too long. I will always want nature to win, despite my dreams of gorgeous flowers and tasty herbs.

My family sent me photos from home of my flowers. Here are two plants thriving in my absence.

Double Tiger lilies
‘Peachie’s Pick’ Stokes aster

FLOW switching tactics

Stokes Aster is a Star

| Flower Roberts

I am so thankful for this beautiful and easy plant, Stokesia laevis ‘Peachie’s Pick.’

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When other flowers start to wilt and fade in the July heat, it steps it up.

I do not give this one any special treatment.

I divide it every few years.

It has thrived wherever I plant it.

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No wonder it’s ‘Peachie’s Pick’ Stokes Aster.

Whoever Peachie is, she know her plants. Butterflies like it, too.

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An Easy Aster

| Flower Roberts

Peachie’s Pick Stokes Aster/ Stokesia laevis is really showing off right now.

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This wonderful plant has ragged purple blooms.

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that are popular with bees and butterflies.

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I have divided it over the years.

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It seems to thrive in any sunny location.

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