Pionovidnyy sort astr formiruet shirokiy, slabovetvistyy kust, vysotoy do 56 sm s krupnymi gustomahrovymi socvetiyami polusfericheskoy i sfericheskoy formy, kremovogo ottenka, diametrom 9-11 sm. Cvetki yazychkovye, lad'evidnye, shirokie, plotno prilegayuschie drug k drugu. Idealen dlya srezki, dolgo sohranyaet esteticheskiy vid. Ispol'zuetsya dlya oformleniya cvetnikov, v gruppovyh i odinochnyh posadkah. Rastenie lyubit horosho osveschennye i zaschischennye ot vetra uchastki. Predpochitaet drenirovannyy neytral'nyy suglinistyy ili supeschanyy grunt. Luchshie predshestvenniki - barhatcy, kalendula ili mnogoletnie travy. Optimal'naya temperatura dlya rosta +16 S, vlazhnost' - 65%. Astra neprihotlivaya, ustoychiva k zasuhe, no dlya formirovaniya krupnyh butonov nuzhdaetsya v svoevremennyh polivah, podkormke i obrabotke ot sornyakov. Posev na rassadu: konec marta-nachalo aprelya, na glubinu 0,5-1 sm. Optimal'nye usloviya vyraschivaniya: temperatura +18 S, umerennaya vlazhnost', horoshee osveschenie. Vysadka v grunt - konec maya, na rasstoyanie mezhdu rasteniyami 30-40 sm. Posev neposredstvenno v grunt proishodit v dva sroka: rannyaya vesna (konec aprelya-nachalo maya), osen'. Glubina zadelki semyan - 2 sm. Uhod: redkie, no obil'nye polivy, propolka, podkormka mineral'nymi udobreniyami: superfosfat, ammiachnaya selitra, sul'fat kaliya.