Aster Gardens

Aster Gardens is an innovative seniors’ living community in Sherwood Park, Alberta.

Aster Gardens is a modern purpose-built residence carefully crafted around seniors’ active lifestyles, tastes, and needs, conceived through local knowledge, partnerships, collaborations, and planning with innovative design and craftsmanship all contributing to an inspiring and functional living experience. Aster Gardens reflects respect and celebration of local history in relation to the Sherwood Park community.

Together with the logo and supporting elements, the Aster Gardens name creates memorable and powerful associations and represents what this facility represents: a transformative and visionary community.

What is in a name?

The aster flower inspired the name of our community. Native to Western Canada, its name is synonymous with stability, resilience, adaptability, and beauty. The aster flower thrives in any soil condition and reaches its peak late in the season. Like the aster flower, Aster Gardens will be a community of resilient and adaptable residents living to their full potential on common soil, surrounded by a thriving, beautiful environment they can call home.

The word Aster is an early 17th-century Latin word deriving its meaning from the Greek word aster, meaning Star.

Asters are daisy-like perennial flowers with starry-shaped heads. They provide a symphony of colour in shades of pink, purple, blue, and white. They bring delightful colour to the garden in late summer and autumn when many summer blooms fade. The blue aster is known to grace the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. A sturdy and robust plant, asters thrive in various conditions, even in challenging soils and rock gardens.

For a seniors’ residence, a name featuring aster carries the meaningful subtext of perennial hardiness combined with a wild, vibrant beauty that reaches its peak late in the season.