Color me blue with envy! The deer of northern Virginia find New England asters to be highly palatable. The aromatic asters which the deer don't much care for give a purple shade rather than a true blue. Yours are lovely.

My deer eat the Blue Wood Asters big time much to my annoyance because they grow so well in the shade when other wild flowers won't. They ignore the New England Asters and I wouldn't mind a little pre-bloom pruning help with them since they get so tall. I've been working on getting the Aromatic, Symphyotrichum oblongifolium populations established.

Very pretty!

Today in the meadows after some light fluff and dry.

Such a pretty blue garden!