Aster x frikartii 'Alpha White'

Common name: Michaelmas Daisy

Description: Aster x frikartii 'Alpha White' bears clean, pure white daisy flowers with golden yellow centres from midsummer through to mid-autumn. This compact and disease-resistant variety forms an attractive bushy mound and provides a bright, fresh presence in late-season borders where it partners beautifully with grasses, sedums, and rudbeckias. An excellent choice for adding lightness to planting schemes whilst providing vital late-season forage for pollinators.

Other benefits: exceptionally long flowering season, disease resistant, good cut flower

Wildlife attraction: bees, butterflies, hoverflies

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 60cm x 50cm

Position: full sun to partial shade

Soil pH: neutral to slightly alkaline

Moisture: moist but well-drained

Winter hardiness: cold hardy to -20°C