lunch in graegle with my friend susan. i always forget how wonderful her phlox are-sigh. been thinking about redoing the border by the front gate-perhaps its time for a phlox obsession. how are all of yours doing?
its sheer laziness that keeps me from having something like this at this time of year but next year will be different bekkie some of the ground cover phlox will do in shade but think the paniculata need full sun.
Im the same as you David, i want big blousy phlox and lots of them! , i intend to shamelessly copy a front garden by me which is full of phlox, roses, hemerocallis- you get the idea! One i was very taken with is called Davids lilac, do you know of any specialist growers?
Love my phlox - take no looking after at all and flower for ages. Here are some of mine this year ...
Bekkie - not sure about specialist growers but hayloft do great deals on phlox (10 plants for £10 etc) - but you have to be prepared to grow them from bareroot. They also take well from cuttings - can you beg some from your neighbour. Do you have a GH?
Ive got a cutting coming from a very generous forum member - so excited , but i feel this could be the next "thing" that i just have to have and collect, yours and Davids pictures are so pretty
I have some very sheltered spots where i keep aloes outside, i can always cobble together a cold frame
I think i may use them in a border around the veg, which have the south facing side of the garden, so the soil shouldnt be a problem, will have a look at hayloft
Iv got a couple,one in full sun and one in partial shade and they both do well. I use those circular stakes on them because they take a bit of a battering if the wind is the right direction. Apart from that they need very little care. One of them is varigated and the flowers are white with a little purple/cerise eye. I didnt really liked it until I moved it next to a purple (Oh senior moment cant think of the name upright plant, spiky flowers a bit like veronica) and a bright cerise salvia. It looks really lovely and picks up the colours in the other plants.
Posts
Are there any that will take some shade?
its sheer laziness that keeps me from having something like this at this time of year but next year will be different
bekkie some of the ground cover phlox will do in shade but think the paniculata need full sun.
Love my phlox - take no looking after at all and flower for ages. Here are some of mine this year ...
Bekkie - not sure about specialist growers but hayloft do great deals on phlox (10 plants for £10 etc) - but you have to be prepared to grow them from bareroot. They also take well from cuttings - can you beg some from your neighbour. Do you have a GH?
I have some very sheltered spots where i keep aloes outside, i can always cobble together a cold frame
Keep your eyes open. last year Hayloft Plants did an offer of 10 different Phlox for a very reasonable price. They may well repeat it.
We have about 15 different ones, but they have been decimated by molluscs this year, to the extent that some of them have completely gone.
They are also martyrs to mildew in dry soil or very dry weather.
In my garden they only seem to do well in beds that are fairly moist They seem to sulk in dry areas. Mine cope well with a little shade.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Iv got a couple,one in full sun and one in partial shade and they both do well. I use those circular stakes on them because they take a bit of a battering if the wind is the right direction. Apart from that they need very little care. One of them is varigated and the flowers are white with a little purple/cerise eye. I didnt really liked it until I moved it next to a purple (Oh senior moment cant think of the name upright plant, spiky flowers a bit like veronica) and a bright cerise salvia. It looks really lovely and picks up the colours in the other plants.