INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPHECIES OF THE Blessed MOTHER ALIPIA GOLOSEEVSKY, Kyiv...
Astra is rightfully called the queen autumn flower garden: it is beautiful, unpretentious and blooms for a long time. Luxurious bouquets of asters keep fresh for more than two weeks.
And large bright asters
In autumn dry silence
So colorful and varied
What is visible under the moon, -
wrote the poet N. Aseev
"Astra" is Greek for "star". Asters are white, pink, yellow, red, blue, purple, with many shades, light and dark. But asters differ not only in color. There are terry asters with large quantity narrow petals sticking out in all directions. In some, the petals are straight, in others, wavy, bent inward, like a peony, in others, narrow, pointed - needle-shaped.
The needle-shaped aster is especially similar to a star that has fallen from the sky: the middle is large, warm yellow, and petals-rays depart from it. You look at them, admire them, and sadness creeps into your heart that this holiday of Nature will soon end. Merciless frosts "sternly say:
"Enough" - and the earth's stars will go out.
Autumn over the shady park... Lies down
Gold maples on the water of the pond.
The leaves are spinning... The birds have fallen silent...
Looking into the cold sky
Astra, radiant aster-star.
Christmas
The first aster flowers were completely different and came to Europe 250 years ago from China.
At that time, the most contradictory information was available about the flora and fauna of China. Only a few of the Europeans managed to visit there, because entry into this country for foreigners was strictly prohibited.
One of the first to penetrate this unknown world were priests - itinerant preachers. They not only tried to preach Christianity among the locals, but also studied the manners and customs of the Chinese, the history and culture of the country, plant and animal world. It was not easy, and sometimes missionary priests were forced to use cunning and bribery.
So it was in 1728, when the French monk Nicola Incarville arrived in China. Unlike the others, he had a special assignment from the director of the royal Trianon Gardens at Versailles, Jussieu. For six months, Jussier taught Incarville the basics of botany, the ability to recognize, describe and grow plants.
Secretly, hiding from the eyes of the officials of the Chinese emperor, Incarville bartered and bought plants, which he then sent to France. In one of the parcels, the seeds of garden aster were also sent to Versailles. This flower attracted the attention of French gardeners and, in particular, the owners of the well-known gardening company Vilmorins. Very soon the first varieties appeared, and the aster rightfully began to be called garden.
Flowers bred from asters seeds turned out to be large, bright colors, with a yellow center. It seemed that their inflorescences looked like either an ordinary chamomile, or the flowers of a peony or daisy, or a basket of chrysanthemums with intricately curved petals. In France, they were called the "queen of daisies."
Gardeners were not very mistaken: both the aster and the daisy are from one very large family of Compositae.
The peculiarity of the plants of this family is that their so-called flowers are not flowers, but inflorescences-baskets filled with small tridentate flowers closely pressed to each other. Only marginal flowers have one large tongue, petal.
Among the Chinese asters, there are about 4,000 varieties that botanists combine into 40 groups, 10 types and 3 classes. And the genus of asters has about 250 species.
The peony asters, bred by the Versailles gardener Pruffaut, are extremely beautiful, and the famous French company Velmorin has grown about 400 species and forms of plants, among which there are luxurious varieties of annual asters. They bloom from late summer until frost. There are low and tall asters with inflorescences of various colors - from snow-white, blue, cream, yellow, purple, dark red to two-color and even tri-color, with a diverse structure of flowers: chrysanthemum, rose, peony. The diameter of the flower of some varieties reaches 17 centimeters.
Annual asters were grown even in Antarctica at the Novolazarevskaya scientific station: in a small heated outbuilding under a transparent two-layer polyethylene roof with a five-centimeter air gap, as many as 6 bushes of pink asters bloomed among the white silence.
Aster flowers are one of the oldest plants.
When a 2000-year-old royal tomb was opened near Simferopol, among various garlands of aconite leaves, laurel and pine cones, they saw an image of an aster flower. The aster was considered an amulet by the ancient Greeks.
Interestingly, the images of aster flowers were on the caps of the soldiers of the Hungarian Red Army. It was worn by poets and writers Antaya Gidash, Iozsef Fodor, Dola Yiesz, Mate Zalka.
In the Hungarian language of flowers, the aster represents autumn, it is called ostiroza, which means "autumn rose" in Russian.
The smell of late flowers is inimitable. Combining the main smells of autumn, they convey the freshness of rain, the withering of leaves, and the bitter smell of pine needles.
There is a belief: if you stand among the asters at night and listen carefully, you can hear a barely perceptible whisper - this is how the asters communicate with their sisters - the stars. And no wonder - according to legend, the aster grew from a speck of dust that fell from a star. And the legend was generated by astronomers, more precisely, the Parisian astronomer Alexandre-Henri-Gabriel Cassini. Cassini studied the science of celestial bodies and devoted the rest of his life to botany. And he succeeded so much in the study of the Compositae family that at one time they even tried to rename them after him.
In 1826, he singled out a new genus of callistefus from the family of asters, which in ancient Greek means " beautiful flower".
So 100 years before him, the monk Incarville called the asters brought from China, while Cassini discovered this name in the old records of the botanist Zhussier.
In the botanical system, two different kinds of these plants in everyday life and in floricultural practice are equally referred to as asters: callistefuses are annual or Chinese asters, and real asters are perennial.
26 species of true asters grow in our country, and 6 of them are endemic. Far East(i.e. grow only in this region). The most interesting of them are the spring-flowering aster fori, 1.5 meters high, and the luxurious-leaved aster with unique leathery palm-sized leaves.
Karel Capek wrote in his book "The Year of the Gardener": "But it happens that in the spring you plant some kind of aster, and by October it will give you a two-meter virgin forest into which you are afraid to enter because you are not sure that you will find your way back."
Chapek was not mistaken: the New England aster reaches two meters in height, and the New Belgian or Virginian aster is one hundred and eighty centimeters in height, with numerous branched, woody shoots, each of which blooms up to 200 flower baskets so brightly and densely that leaves are not visible behind them at all. It is very difficult for a person who has entered their thickets to come back.
Noticing beautiful system Virginian aster, gardeners began to plant it to strengthen the banks, and now the aster brings not only practical benefits, but, blooming, and more than once, reflected in the water, enhances the aesthetic impact. Her variety Blue Jewel is also a good honey plant.
Asters Altai and Tatar are used in Tibetan traditional medicine.
And asters shaggy and Tatar are living indicators for geologists: on soils rich in nickel, they change the color of flowers, as if telling people where to look for deposits of this metal.
What forms have breeders not brought out over these 200-odd years! Here and undersized branchy small-flowered - for curb plantings, and tall terry - for bouquets.
Now in the world collection there are more than 600 varieties of asters. They are very varied. Bushes are pyramidal, columnar, oval or sprawling. Plant height - from 15 to 100 centimeters, flowers - with a diameter of 2 to 16 centimeters - have a wide variety of colors and shapes. Flowering time - from 40 days early varieties, up to 85 - in the later ones. To understand this diversity, a classification was created that divided the varieties into 10 types, the names of which very figuratively describe appearance inflorescences: tubular, simple, semi-double, coronal, curly, ray, needle, hemispherical, spherical and imbricate.
You look at these forms and colors and you just don’t believe that two or three centuries ago they didn’t exist, but there was only a modest blue-violet flower that traveled thousands of kilometers with such difficulty to become a favorite of European flower growers.
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Astra is rightfully called the queen of the autumn flower garden: she is beautiful, unpretentious and blooms for a long time. Luxurious bouquets of asters keep fresh for more than two weeks. "Astra" is Greek for "star". Asters are white, pink, yellow, red, blue, purple, with many shades, light and dark. But asters differ not only in color. There are terry asters with a large number of narrow petals sticking out in all directions. In some, the petals are straight, in others, wavy, bent inward, like a peony, in others, narrow, pointed - needle-shaped. The needle-shaped aster is especially similar to a star that has fallen from the sky. The first aster flowers were completely different and came to Europe 250 years ago from China.
At that time, the most contradictory information was available about the flora and fauna of China. Only a few of the Europeans managed to visit there, because entry into this country for foreigners was strictly prohibited.
One of the first to penetrate into this unknown world were priests - itinerant preachers. They not only tried to preach Christianity among the locals, but also studied the manners and customs of the Chinese, the history and culture of the country, flora and fauna. It was not easy, and sometimes missionary priests were forced to use cunning and bribery.
So it was in 1728, when the French monk Nicola Incarville arrived in China. Unlike the others, he had a special assignment from the director of the royal Trianon Gardens at Versailles, Jussieu. For six months, Jussier taught Incarville the basics of botany, the ability to recognize, describe and grow plants.
Secretly, hiding from the eyes of the officials of the Chinese emperor, Incarville bartered and bought plants, which he then sent to France. In one of the parcels, the seeds of garden aster were also sent to Versailles. This flower attracted the attention of French gardeners and, in particular, the owners of the well-known gardening company Vilmorin.
Very soon the first varieties appeared, and the aster rightfully began to be called garden. Flowers bred from asters seeds turned out to be large, bright colors, with a yellow center. It seemed that their inflorescences looked like either an ordinary chamomile, or the flowers of a peony or daisy, or a basket of chrysanthemums with intricately curved petals.
In France, they were called the “queen of daisies.” The gardeners were not very mistaken: both the aster and the daisy are from one very large family of Compositae.
The peculiarity of the plants of this family is that their so-called flowers are not flowers, but inflorescences-baskets filled with small tridentate flowers closely pressed to each other. Only marginal flowers have one large tongue, petal.
Among the Chinese asters, there are about 4,000 varieties that botanists combine into 40 groups, 10 types and 3 classes. And the genus of asters has about 250 species. The peony asters, bred by the Versailles gardener Pruffaut, are extremely beautiful, and the famous French company Velmorin has grown about 400 species and forms of plants, among which there are luxurious varieties of annual asters.
They bloom from late summer until frost. Among the asters there are low and high ones with inflorescences of various colors - from snow-white, blue, cream, yellow, purple, dark red to two-color and even tri-color, with a diverse structure of flowers: chrysanthemum, pink, peony. The diameter of the flower of some varieties reaches 17 centimeters.
Annual asters were grown even in Antarctica at the Novolazarevskaya scientific station: in a small heated outbuilding under a transparent two-layer polyethylene roof with a five-centimeter air gap, as many as 6 bushes of pink asters bloomed among the white silence.
Aster flowers are one of the oldest plants. When a 2000-year-old royal tomb was opened near Simferopol, among various garlands of aconite leaves, laurel and pine cones, they saw an image of an aster flower. The aster was considered an amulet by the ancient Greeks.
Interestingly, the images of aster flowers were on the caps of the soldiers of the Hungarian Red Army. It was worn by poets and writers Antaya Gidash, Iozsef Fodor, Dola Yiesz, Mate Zalka. In the Hungarian language of flowers, the aster represents autumn, it is called ostiroza, which means “autumn rose” in Russian.
The smell of late flowers is inimitable. Combining the main smells of autumn, they convey the freshness of rain, the withering of leaves, and the bitter smell of pine needles. There is a belief: if you stand among the asters at night and listen carefully, you can hear a subtle whisper - this is how the asters communicate with their sisters - the stars.
And no wonder - according to legend, the aster grew from a speck of dust that fell from a star. And the legend was generated by astronomers, more precisely, the Parisian astronomer Alexandre-Henri-Gabriel Cassini. Cassini studied the science of celestial bodies in his youth, and devoted the rest of his life to botany. And he succeeded so much in the study of the Compositae family that at one time they even tried to rename them after him.
In 1826, he isolated a new genus of callistefus from the family of asters, which in ancient Greek means “beautiful flower”. So 100 years before him, the monk Incarville called the asters brought from China, while Cassini discovered this name in the old records of the botanist Zhussier.
In the botanical system, two different kinds of these plants in everyday life and in floricultural practice are equally referred to as asters: callistefuses are annual or Chinese asters, and real asters are perennial.
26 species of true asters grow in our country, and 6 of them are endemic to the Far East (that is, they grow only in this region). The most interesting of them are the 1.5-meter-high spring-flowering aster fori and the luxurious-leaved aster with unique leathery palm-sized leaves.
Karel Capek wrote in his book “The Year of the Gardener”: “But it happens that in the spring you plant some kind of aster, and by October it will give you a two-meter virgin forest, which you are afraid to enter, because you are not sure that you will find your way back” .
Chapek was not mistaken: the New England aster reaches two meters in height, and the New Belgian or Virginian aster is one hundred and eighty centimeters in height, with numerous branched, woody shoots, each of which blooms up to 200 flower baskets so brightly and densely that leaves are not visible behind them at all. It is very difficult for a person who has entered their thickets to come back.
Noticing the beautiful system of the virgin aster, gardeners began to plant it to strengthen the banks, and now the aster brings not only practical benefits, but, blooming, and more than once, reflected in the water, enhances the aesthetic impact. Her variety Blue Jewel is also a good honey plant.
Altai and Tatar asters are used in Tibetan folk medicine. And asters shaggy and Tatar are living indicators for geologists: on soils rich in nickel, they change the color of flowers, as if telling people where to look for deposits of this metal.
What forms have breeders not brought out over these 200-odd years! Here and undersized branchy small-flowered - for curb plantings, and tall terry - for bouquets.
Now in the world collection there are more than 600 varieties of asters. They are very varied. Bushes are pyramidal, columnar, oval or sprawling. Plant height - from 15 to 100 centimeters, flowers - with a diameter of 2 to 16 centimeters - have a wide variety of colors and shapes. The duration of flowering - from 40 days - in early varieties, up to 85 - in late ones.
To understand this diversity, a classification was created that divided the varieties into 10 types, the names of which very figuratively describe the appearance of the inflorescences: tubular, simple, semi-double, coronal, curly, ray, needle, hemispherical, spherical and tiled.
Astra is rightfully called the queen of the autumn flower garden: she is beautiful, unpretentious and blooms for a long time. Luxurious bouquets of asters keep fresh for more than two weeks. And large bright asters In the autumn dry silence So colorful and variegated, What are visible in the moonlight, - wrote the poet N. Aseev "Astra" - in Greek - "star". Asters are white, pink, yellow, red, blue, purple, with many shades, light and dark. But asters differ not only in color. There are terry asters with a large number of narrow petals sticking out in all directions. In some, the petals are straight, in others, wavy, bent inward, like a peony, in others, narrow, pointed - needle-shaped. The needle-shaped aster is especially similar to a star that has fallen from the sky: the middle is large, warm yellow, and petals-rays depart from it. You look at them, admire them, and sadness creeps into your heart that this holiday of Nature will soon end. The merciless frosts "severely say:" Enough "- and the earthly stars will go out. Autumn over the shady park... The gold of the maples falls on the waters of the pond. The leaves are spinning... The birds have fallen silent... Astra, the radiant aster-star, looks into the cold sky. Christmas The first aster flowers were completely different and came to Europe 250 years ago from China.At that time, there were the most contradictory information about the flora and fauna of China.Only a few Europeans managed to visit there, because entry into this country for foreigners was strictly prohibited "One of the first to penetrate this unknown world were priests - itinerant preachers. They not only tried to preach Christianity among the locals, but also studied the customs and customs of the Chinese, the history and culture of the country, the flora and fauna. It was not easy, and sometimes the priests - the missionaries were forced to use cunning and bribery, as was the case in 1728, when the French monk Nicolas Incarville arrived in China. a task from the director of the royal garden Trianon in Versailles Jussieu. For six months, Jussier taught Incarville the basics of botany, the ability to recognize, describe and grow plants. Secretly, hiding from the eyes of the officials of the Chinese emperor, Incarville bartered and bought plants, which he then sent to France. In one of the parcels, the seeds of garden aster were also sent to Versailles. This flower attracted the attention of French gardeners and, in particular, the owners of the well-known gardening company Vilmorin. Very soon the first varieties appeared, and the aster rightfully began to be called garden. Flowers bred from asters seeds turned out to be large, bright colors, with a yellow center. It seemed that their inflorescences looked like either an ordinary chamomile, or the flowers of a peony or daisy, or a basket of chrysanthemums with intricately curved petals. In France, they were called the "queen of daisies." Gardeners were not very mistaken: both the aster and the daisy are from one very large family of Compositae. The peculiarity of the plants of this family is that their so-called flowers are not flowers, but inflorescences-baskets filled with small tridentate flowers closely pressed to each other. Only marginal flowers have one large tongue, petal. Among the Chinese asters, there are about 4,000 varieties that botanists combine into 40 groups, 10 types and 3 classes. And the genus of asters has about 250 species. A selection of photos from the Internet.
Astra "Grey-haired lady" red
Translated from Greek astra means "star". An ancient legend says that the aster grew from a speck of dust that fell from a star.
According to Greek legend, from the constellation Virgo, which for the Greeks was associated with the goddess of love Aphrodite, a tear rolled down - star dust. In those places that were touched by the star dust that had flown to the ground, unprecedented flowers grew - asters, so reminiscent of heavenly stars with their inflorescence.
The aster flower is a symbol of women born under astrological sign Virgin.
The aster was brought to our country from China 200-250 years ago, where this flower was considered a symbol of beauty, modesty and charm. And now we can meet aster in all natural areas.
The wild-growing annual aster is not very decorative, so many cultivated hybrid varieties. Now in the world collection there are more than 600 varieties of asters. They are very diverse and differ in the shape, size, structure and color of the inflorescences, in the shape and size of the bush and flowering time.
Aster garden is an annual herbaceous plant with a powerful, fibrous, widely branched root system. The stems are green, sometimes reddish, hard, erect, simple or branched.
The leaves are arranged in the next order, the lower ones are on petioles, broadly oval or oval-rhombic, unequally coarsely dentate, serrate or crenate along the edge; upper - seated. The inflorescence is a basket consisting of reed and tubular flowers.
My acquaintance with annual asters came close a few years ago with the purchase of several different varieties. Among them were pom-pom, and needle-shaped asters, and pion-shaped. But most of all that summer I was captivated by the aster of the Gray Lady variety in red and pink colors, and since then it has been one of my favorites.
Astra "Grey-haired lady" red
"The Gray-haired Lady" is an unusually beautiful one-year-old aster. Its red-crimson or rose-red tone from the center smoothly turns into white at the tips, creating a graying effect, hence the name of the variety. There are asters of this variety with colors and in blue-violet tones.
The variety in question belongs to large-flowered peony asters.
The bush at the "Gray Lady" is tall, compact, columnar, durable, can reach a height of up to 50-65 cm. During the growing season, it forms up to 20 inflorescences on long, strong, densely leafy peduncles. Numerous shoots provide this variety with unusually lush flowering.
Astra "Gray Lady" pink
The inflorescences of the "Gray Lady" are hemispherical, terry, 8-10 cm in diameter, not drooping. They consist of bicolor, red-crimson or rose-red with a white stripe, wide reed flowers that cover the inner tubular flowers. Peduncles are strong.
The plant is light-loving, cold-resistant, tolerates frosts down to minus 4 degrees C.
The "gray-haired lady" can be grown both in seedlings and by sowing seeds in the ground.
The most commonly used seedling method. Asters are planted on seedlings in late March - early April, dive with the development of the first pair of true leaves according to the 5 × 5 cm scheme.
Crops are grown at a temperature of 15-18 degrees C. At a soil temperature of 15 degrees, seedlings appear in 7-14 days.
Before planting seedlings in open ground at the end of May, it is hardened for 1-2 weeks, lowering the temperature to 10 degrees C.
In open ground, seeds are sown in late April - early May under temporary shelter or in late May - early June, followed by thinning of seedlings.
Winter sowing of asters is also possible: at the end of October to a depth of 5-8 cm. From above, the crops are mulched with peat or sawdust to a height of 3-5 cm. In the spring, in late March and early April, the crops are opened. The seedlings that appeared at the end of April will be hardened, and the grown plants will be strong, resistant to frost and bloom profusely.
Asters planting scheme 20 × 30 cm.
Aster seeds are lightly sprinkled with earth, watered only with warm water.
The "gray-haired lady" prefers a sunny, wind-sheltered place, with fertile, calcareous, well-drained soils, but without fresh manure.
In one place, this variety of asters, as well as all other varieties of annual asters, is grown for no more than one year.
Seeds from this variety are not collected, as the color is not preserved.
Bush "Gray Lady" pink
The "gray-haired lady" looks very beautiful in tape and group plantings on the lawn, as the central plants in a mixed flower bed, in the background of a high curb. It can be used as a pot culture and for cutting. Bouquets with "Gray Lady" are amazingly beautiful! They do not fade in the water for a long time and delight the eye with the splendor and bizarre coloring of the inflorescences.
Astra "Grey-haired lady" red in the flower garden
Care for the "Gray Lady" consists of rare but plentiful watering. Frequent, careful loosening is recommended. Astra must be fed with mineral fertilizers during the budding period.
"Grey-haired Lady" blooms profusely and for a long time (from July to October). To prolong the flowering period, faded inflorescences must be removed.
Bush "Gray Lady" red
The advantage of this variety is that it is relatively resistant to aster disease such as fusarium.
Astra is rightfully called the queen of the autumn flower garden: she is beautiful, unpretentious and blooms for a long time. Luxurious bouquets of asters keep fresh for more than two weeks!
In my opinion, the Gray Lady aster is one of the most beautiful asters! She is a gem in my garden!
I think that the unique two-tone color of the inflorescences and the excellent cutting qualities of this variety will make it worthy of your attention.
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Astra (lat. Aster) - genus herbaceous plants Aster family, or Compositae (Asteraceae), including more than 200 species, widely distributed in culture as ornamental plants With beautiful flowers(actually it's not individual flowers, but inflorescences).
"Aster" - Latin transcription of the Greek "asteros" - star, the name is given for the shape of the inflorescences.
The birthplace of the wild ancestors of the annual aster is the northern regions of Korea, Manchuria and China.
The genus includes, according to various estimates, from 200 to 500 species, of which more than half grow wild in Central and North America.
Asters are annual and perennial rhizomatous herbs with simple leaves. Inflorescences - baskets collected in complex complexes in the form of a shield or panicle; marginal flowers- reed, their color is very diverse; central - small, tubular, as a rule, yellow color. The inflorescences of asters are large, simple, double or semi-double, of various colors.
Plants have powerful, well-branched roots. The bulk of the roots is located at a depth of 15-20 cm, some of them penetrate even deeper into the soil. And so the aster is well supplied with water and nutrients.
Blooms from late July to late autumn.
Astra is rightfully called the queen of the autumn flower garden: she is beautiful, unpretentious and blooms for a long time. Luxurious bouquets of asters keep fresh for more than two weeks.
"Astra" is Greek for "star". Asters are white, pink, yellow, red, blue, purple, with many shades, light and dark. But asters differ not only in color. There are terry asters with a large number of narrow petals sticking out in all directions. In some, the petals are straight, in others, wavy, bent inward, like a peony, in others, narrow, pointed - needle-shaped.
The needle-shaped aster is especially similar to a star that has fallen from the sky: the middle is large, warm yellow, and petals-rays depart from it.
The first aster flowers were completely different and came to Europe 250 years ago from China. At that time, the most contradictory information was available about the flora and fauna of China. Only a few of the Europeans managed to visit there, because entry into this country for foreigners was strictly prohibited.
One of the first to penetrate this unknown world were priests - itinerant preachers. They not only tried to preach Christianity among the locals, but also studied the manners and customs of the Chinese, the history and culture of the country, flora and fauna. It was not easy, and sometimes missionary priests were forced to use cunning and bribery.
So it was in 1728, when the French monk Nicola Incarville arrived in China. Unlike the others, he had a special assignment from the director of the royal Trianon Gardens at Versailles, Jussieu. For six months, Jussier taught Incarville the basics of botany, the ability to recognize, describe and grow plants.
Secretly, hiding from the eyes of the officials of the Chinese emperor, Incarville bartered and bought plants, which he then sent to France. In one of the parcels, the seeds of garden aster were also sent to Versailles. This flower attracted the attention of French gardeners and, in particular, the owners of the well-known gardening company Vilmorin. Very soon the first varieties appeared, and the aster rightfully began to be called garden.
It seemed that their inflorescences looked like either an ordinary chamomile, or the flowers of a peony or daisy, or a basket of chrysanthemums with intricately curved petals. In France, they were called the "queen of daisies."
Gardeners were not very mistaken: both the aster and the daisy are from one very large family of Compositae.
The peculiarity of the plants of this family is that their so-called flowers are not flowers, but inflorescences-baskets filled with small tridentate flowers closely pressed to each other. Only marginal flowers have one large tongue, petal.
Aster flowers are one of the oldest plants. When a 2000-year-old royal tomb was opened near Simferopol, among various garlands of aconite leaves, laurel and pine cones, they saw an image of an aster flower.
The aster was considered an amulet by the ancient Greeks.
Interestingly, the images of aster flowers were on the caps of the soldiers of the Hungarian Red Army. It was worn by poets and writers Antaya Gidash, Iozsef Fodor, Dola Yiesz, Mate Zalka.
In the Hungarian language of flowers, the aster represents autumn, it is called ostiroza, which means "autumn rose" in Russian.
The smell of late flowers is inimitable. Combining the main smells of autumn, they convey the freshness of rain, the withering of leaves, and the bitter smell of pine needles.
There is a belief: if you stand among the asters at night and listen carefully, you can hear a barely perceptible whisper - this is how the asters communicate with their sisters - the stars. And no wonder - according to legend, the aster grew from a speck of dust that fell from a star. And the legend was generated by astronomers, more precisely, the Parisian astronomer Alexandre-Henri-Gabriel Cassini. Cassini studied the science of celestial bodies in his youth, and devoted the rest of his life to botany. And he succeeded so much in the study of the Compositae family that at one time they even tried to rename them after him.
Astra in Chinese means beauty, charm, modesty, humility and elegance.
The ancient Greeks symbolize love and is dedicated to Aphrodite.
Astra is a symbol of love, grace, sophistication, as well as memories.
An ancient legend says that the aster grew from a speck of dust that fell from a star. Already in Ancient Greece people were familiar with the constellation Virgo, which was associated with the goddess of love, Aphrodite. According to ancient Greek myth the aster arose from cosmic dust when the Virgin looked down from the sky and wept.
There is another legend about the appearance of asters on earth: two Taoist monks decided to go to the stars. For a long time they walked through the prickly forest. We made our way through the thickets of juniper. We climbed the barely visible mountain paths. They glided over the snowy glaciers. Until they reached the top high mountain Altai. But, having reached the top, they saw that the stars were still high in the sky and did not get closer. Long was the way back. The monks had no food or water left, they skinned the body into blood, tore their clothes. Almost without strength, they descended from the mountains, and came to a beautiful meadow, where a clear stream flowed and wonderful flowers grew. “Look,” one of the monks said, “we have come such a hard way to see the beauty of the stars in the sky, and they, it turns out, live here on earth.” They dug up and brought some plants to the monastery and began to breed these flowers, calling them asters, which in Latin means stars.
In China, asters symbolize beauty, precision, elegance, charm and modesty.
For Hungarians, this flower is associated with autumn, which is why in Hungary the aster is called the “autumn rose”. In ancient times, people believed that if a few aster leaves were thrown into a fire, the smoke from this fire could drive out snakes.
The aster flower is a symbol of women born under the astrological sign of Virgo. Astra is a symbol of sadness. This flower was considered a gift to man from the gods, his amulet, amulet, a particle of his distant star. Therefore, the sadness symbolized by him is sadness for the lost paradise, for the impossibility of ascending into the sky.
MBC: a fateful meeting.
Love, sympathy, tenderness, passion, friendship, gallantry, association, cooperation, fame, happiness.
Asters are known for their useful properties. Some varieties are excellent honey plants. Others have found use in Tibetan medicine. There are even "geologist's assistants" that change the color of flowers depending on the presence of ore deposits nearby. New Belgian or virgin aster is widely used to strengthen the banks of reservoirs.
