'Blue Autumn' ('Oudshoorn') Aster blooms from late summer into fall, with brilliant violet-blue daisy-form flowers. The foliage is disease-resistant and the habit is upright. It was hybridized by Herbert Oudshoorn of the Netherlands, and introduced into the U.S. by Future Plants. We saw it first in our favorite Vermont Garden Center (Rockydale, in Bristol), and couldn't wait to get it into our own gardens.