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SunnyBorders said:Thanks, All.

Susan, the magenta ones are New England aster 'Alma Pötschke' and the blue ones are smooth aster 'Bluebird'.
I like Stokes aster cultivars a lot, but find they're not so hardy here.

Think it's much easier to have neat spring gardens than a neat fall ones, Lucy.
Some of the fall perennials are very scaled up.

I particularly like the magenta New England asters, Jo Ann.
Think they go very well with purple, mauve and blue asters.

Magenta and Gertrude Jekyll:
Maybe repeating myself, but read a possible basis for her aversion to magenta in the garden.
A number of socially conscious people, during the Industrial Revolution, spoke against the new (then) industrially produced dyes,
their focus being on improving the lot of workers.
The second one produced was fuschine (magenta).

Thanks Charlie, those 'Alma Pötschke's' are beautiful. I have a 'Purple Dome' and I just love the late blooms and the bright purple flowers. I purchased 'September Ruby' hoping for the Magenta color that you have. I just got it but It says this one gets 4 feet tall. But the Stokes will be shorter so I ordered 5 of those. I see what you mean about them not being as hardy. That's a shame!