How to Use aster in a Sentence

aster

noun

• Mulch your asters to help hold moisture in the soil.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
• Add two inches of compost and mulch to help your asters grow faster.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
• Mums and asters will bloom in summer unless the flower buds are pinched or cut.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
• Grab armfuls of dahlias, zinnias, asters, and strawflowers to share with friends.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
• Combined with hostas in a shade bed, white wood aster will cover dry areas filled with shade tree roots.
  — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
• Mint marigold starts blooming a little later in the season than fall aster.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Nov. 2021
• The same advice goes for potted asters, also available this time of year.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2017
• There are dozens of fall asters from tall to short, white to purple and native to exotic.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2017
• Deer will eat fall aster, so the planting site must be selected to avoid their browsing.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Blue-purple asters come back each fall too, as do pink Japanese anemones.
  — Taylor Augustin, House Beautiful, 14 June 2023
• Stokes aster plants do best in full sun and are very low-maintenance once established.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 2 Apr. 2026
• On the route, guests can spot violet lupines, purple asters, glacier lilies, and beargrass.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• Provide afternoon shade for asters grown in hot climates.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
• Early summer bloomers have fizzled out and autumn charmers like asters and mums have yet to pop.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2024
• One of the most memorable of these is beach aster or seaside daisy (Erigeron glaucus).
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
• Blooms include black-eyed susan, aster, coneflower, and more.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2026
• There are some pests that harm carrots—aster leafhoppers, slugs, and nematodes.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
• Most are some shade of purple, but breeders have released asters in shades of pink, strawberry, and creamy white.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2025
• Planting asters in your garden will make for a colorful show of flowers around your birthday.
  — Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
• Plant marigolds and asters in the same sunny spot, and these two cheery and vivid summer blooms will thrive in the full sun, hot conditions.
  — Heather Bien, The Spruce, 24 Apr. 2026
• There are flowers that pretty much let anybody come and visit — a lot of asters, for example.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Other species of asters fall into the Symphyotrichum genus.
  — Marie Iannotti, The Spruce, 9 May 2026
• The wild blue aster is native to central and eastern United States.
  — New York Times Games, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
• The last bees and butterflies of the season hover over goldenrod and asters.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
• In the late summer and early fall, the birds will also appreciate some asters.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
• Your baby girl will love these colorful roses, daisies, and asters sitting in her bedroom.
  — Blake Bakkila, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2025
• Like its Eastern cousin, this western native aster blooms from late summer into fall.
  — Thad Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2021
• For the late fall also grow some duranta, mint marigold, Mexican flame vine, and fall aster.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 May 2020
• The dry prairie along the bluff top is home to little bluestem, wild bergamot, columbine and silky aster — a colorful display in the spring.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
• Georgia, for example, is a mix of peaches, magnolias, asters, and sweet tea.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2018