Native plants for a Cape Cod garden

This aster does not need a lot of care and can be grown easily in average soil. Unlike some of the woodland asters, it prefers sunny conditions. The plant can get rather tall (up to 6 feet tall) and lanky, and when the flowers appear it may require staking. Another way to get bushier shorter plants is to pinch back the stems any time before mid-July. This is a good cutting flower to bring indoors. This aster self-seeds easily and will also send out long rhizomes which will bring new plants in unexpected places. The new england asters in my yard have also fallen prey to the woodchuck, and the only one remaining was perched right against the house.