Rose Pink and Cream Dwarf Beauty Phlox #5
by J McCombie
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Rose Pink and Cream Dwarf Beauty Phlox #5
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J McCombie
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This piece has been featured in the FAA Group, "Flower On Green".
A beautiful annual which blooms throughout a long summer season. It produces large solid heads of bright rich colours on dwarf bushy plants. Admirable for filling out summer beds sowing in drifts etc, and the flowers are splendid for cutting. Autumn sown plants make fine spring flowering pot plants for the cool greenhouse. Flowers early summer to autumn.
Phlox Drummondii (Dwarf Beauty Annual Phlox) is a long-blooming annual. Small, lance-shaped leaves are held close to the stem and are medium green. Brightly colored salverform flowers, to 1 inch wide, are held in clusters on stems above the foliage. Excellent in the perennial border or rock garden. ‘Dwarf Beauty’ is early-flowering, bearing profuse, very large flowers, to 1 1/4 inches or more wide, in a wide variety of colors. Spreads 16 inches or more wide.
Phlox drummondii (commonly annual phlox or Drummond's phlox) is a flowering plant in the genus Phlox of the family Polemoniaceae. Native to Texas, it is also widely distributed in the southeastern United States, especially along public highways. P. drummondii is often used as an ornamental plant. The flowers have a wide range of colours "from white and cream through pinks, lilacs, roses, purples and reds, to almost black". Phlox drummondii is named after Scottish botanist Thomas Drummond, who sent it and a variety of other plant samples back to Britain following his 1833–1835 expedition to Texas.
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March 12th, 2019
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