Shake the root ball slightly to remove some of the dirt to expose the roots. Lift the root ball from the soil using the spade. Dig down about a foot to release the root ball. Its large flower clusters have a light, pleasant fragrance, and they make a lovely addition to summer bouquets. Use a spade to dig a circle about 6 inches to 8 inches around the mound of blanket flowers that need dividing. It blooms in mid-summer and is a great addition to cottage garden landscapes, cutting gardens, and pollinator gardens. Just a few phlox will add major color to your whole garden. Garden Phlox is an upright fragrant flower that grows to about three feet tall. They establish quickly with full sun, and are known for their pleasant vanilla-clove fragrance. Regardless of flower color, garden phlox is attractive to hummingbirds and is a good selection. Specific epithet refers to the plant bearing flowers in panicles. Garden Phlox brings lasting, mid summer color to the landscape on tall, thick columns of flowers, and are some of the easiest perennials to grow. Mixes well with other perennials and provides long summer bloom. The genus name is derived from the Greek word phlox meaning flame in reference to the intense flower colors of some varieties. Cultivars resistant to powdery mildew are often the best choices. Butterflies and hummingbirds love the flowers.Ī large number of garden phlox cultivars in flower colors including white, lavender, pink, rose, red and bi-color are available in commerce. Each individual floret has a long corolla tube and five flat petal-like lobes. Large, rounded clusters composed of nearly 1 wide, fragrant, pure white flowers sit atop sturdy stems in summer and are sure to attract butterflies. Fragrant, tubular, pink-purple to white florets (to 3/4” diameter) are densely packed in large, tiered, domed terminal clusters (to 6-8") over a long July to September bloom period. This is an upright perennial that grows in a clump to 2-4' tall and to 2-3' wide on stiff stems clad with conspicuously veined, opposite, pointed, elliptic, deep green leaves (to 4-6" long). In Missouri, it is typically found south of the Missouri River in moist or rich low woods, thickets, alluvial banks and gravel bars along streams and bluff bases (Steyermark). It has escaped gardens and naturalized into areas beyond its original native range. The species paniculata is an upright growing phlox perfect for bringing color and height to mixed perennial plantings. Phlox paniculata, commonly known as garden phlox, is native from New York to Iowa south to Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas.
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