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Michaelmas daisy ‘Little Carlow’
25 September 2009

I love all michaelmas daisies - so long as they are healthy and prosperous the size of their flowers doesn’t bother me, and most of their colours are pretty, or at worst harmless. They fill the autumn border with such billowing bounty, expanding to occupy the ground between fading neighbours; how can you garden without them?
I have not found one I like better, or that does better, than ‘Little Carlow’, a hybrid of Aster cordifolius. Aster x frikartii’ ‘Monch’ is bigger, brighter and better known, but Little Carlow is spreading wider here every autumn.

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