I bought 8 Blue Dragon asters Labor Day weekend while visiting family in Virginia (zone 6b) and promptly planted them in a slope flower bed at my home in North Carolina (zone 7b). The asters had many buds and blooms when I bought them, but every one of them has presumably died within 2 weeks of planting (they are brown and crispy looking). I did notice some snail "ooze" on them within the first couple days of planting so I put out snail repellant around each of the plants. They are planted on a slope with clay soil that gets partial sun.
My questions are: What did I do wrong? And will they come back next year?
I bought 8 Blue Dragon asters Labor Day weekend while visiting family in Virginia (zone 6b) and promptly planted them in a slope flower bed at my home in North Carolina (zone 7b). The asters had many buds and blooms when I bought them, but every one of them has presumably died within 2 weeks of planting (they are brown and crispy looking). I did notice some snail "ooze" on them within the first couple days of planting so I put out snail repellant around each of the plants. They are planted on a slope with clay soil that gets partial sun.
My questions are: What did I do wrong? And will they come back next year?