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Aster? ID

HomemadeLookHomemadeLook Posts: 16
in Problem solving
I'm usually very good at keeping labels but have lost this one. I think it's an aster but I wonder if anyone can tell me what one. The colour is actually more indigo than the picture shows. 

Oh and ignore the horrible mildew, I would have hacked it back but wanted it to flower so I could ID it.

Thanks

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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Can't help with the name but as it's got mildew it could be a Symphyotrichum novi-belgii  the new name for new england asters.
    There is one called Peter 111 but I don't think it's as dark but it's so hard to tell from photos as every photo  looks a different colour. 
    Have your flowers got the yellow centre that aster usually have?
  • rachelQrtJHBjbrachelQrtJHBjb Posts: 819
    This site may help you ID it. https://www.autumnasters.co.uk/
    As @K67 says, flowers in the blue/purple spectrum can look so different in photos, making it very difficult to get the identification right. 

  • HomemadeLookHomemadeLook Posts: 16
    K67 said:

    Have your flowers got the yellow centre that aster usually have?
    Hmm, just checked and no yellow centre, maybe not an aster at all then?
  • HomemadeLookHomemadeLook Posts: 16
    rachelQrtJHBjb said:
    This site may help you ID it. https://www.autumnasters.co.uk/
    As @K67 says, flowers in the blue/purple spectrum can look so different in photos, making it very difficult to get the identification right. 

    Thank you, I'll have a browse. Yes I found it impossible to get a photo that looked the same as my eye could see, whatever settings I used
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I bought one recently called 'Blue Lapis' and it is the closest to a true blue I have ever seen in a Michaelmas daisy - a wonderful, deep royal blue with the merest hint of purple.
    It's a short one and will look great at the front of the border while Alma Potschke is strutting her stuff at the back :)
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