Old Fashioned Garden Phlox
Not only is it beautiful but it helps you keep your yard colorful in the second half of the summer after the flowers of many other plants have gone by.
Old fashioned garden phlox. You ll need to divide them. Deadhead to further extend the blooming season. A tall late blooming native wildflower of woodland borders. Summer phlox phlox paniculata which produces rounded clusters of butterfly attracting blooms on 3 foot stems through the long hot months was the backbone of the old fashioned perennial border.
Volcano ruby a phlox for warm climates. Phlox suffered a downturn in popularity from the 1940s to the 1980s when perennial gardening in general came to be regarded as old fashioned and rather quaint and this is when so many old cultivars were lost. Perennial phlox has big showy clusters of flowers. Growing phlox varieties planting phlox.
The spruce adrienne legault tall garden phlox phlox paniculata grows in upright clumps and has long been a popular perennial for the landscape. Plant with catmint and phlox. While the tough as nails purple coneflower is a classic worth growing new hybrids thrill with lime orange and hot pink blooms. Prepare your ground by tilling or hoeing about a foot deep and mix in plenty of compost before planting.
Types of phlox flowers. After your plants are killed back by frost snip the stems to approximately two inches above the ground. Prefers humidity heat and well drained soil but is equally cold tolerant. I hope i don t sound like a snob when i say that although i can appreciate the purity of the wild species i find its muddy pink flowers a bit unsophisticated for modern gardens.
Phlox zones 4 to 8 garden phlox often called border phlox to avoid confusion with the lower growing moss phlox is the perfect mid sized perennial for a cottage garden. Nora leigh a variegated plant. These colorful perennials flower for months are drought tolerant and are resistant to deer and rabbits. Garden phlox are old fashioned flowers that conjure up images of romantic cottage gardens and hazy summer landscapes.