All About Asters with Mary Anne Borge

Members of the Aster family bloom from early spring throughout the growing season, but late summer through the end of fall is the time they dominate the landscape.  The ‘Asters’ or ‘composites’ are the second largest family of flowering plants.  What makes this successful plant family different from all others?  We’ll survey many of the colorful members of the Aster family, including asters, goldenrods, bonesets, coneflowers, tickseeds, and many others.  Learn about the relationships these plants have with the insects, birds, and other animals that depend on them.

Mary Anne Borge is the editor of Butterfly Gardener magazine, an instructor at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, and a Rutgers Green Infrastructure Champion, and Chair of Lambertville’s Parks & Recreation Commission. She is the Team Leader for Lambertville Goes Wild, a volunteer organization that successfully led the City of Lambertville to certification in 2019 by the National Wildlife Federation as a community wildlife habitat. On her blog, the-natural-web.org, Mary Anne writes about and illustrates with her photography the importance of native plants to all life.

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