Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Blooms, almost November, or other garden pretties?, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
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You may have a different aster. Mine has really wooden stems. yours?

Next spring, I will try to remove some root sections and pot them up to share.
I do want to keep it a bit more in bounds.
The fact that it is doing well in my "YUK bed--is admirable.
Any plants that can thrive there get my kudos.

Seems to be quite a lot of plants in there that do. I just keep wondering
how much better all those plants would be doing if they had a soft, loamy soil
to grow in. They do not--and the tree roots take up all the moisture and nutrients.

G..... :o/

Here is a more distant look of where it sits. Those are B&B Salvias on either side of it.
They sure have grown big!