Tall 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.

Tall garden phlox. Tall garden phlox have long blooming colorful flowers that pop in any garden. Tall garden phlox phlox paniculata grows in upright clumps and has long been a popular perennial for the landscape. They were exported to europe in the early 18th century and many of the early cultivars originated in england and germany. Blooming for weeks from mid to late summer the fragrant flowers are rich of nectar and visited by hummingbirds and butterflies.

Phlox are native to many parts of the eastern and central united states. Most phlox can be placed into two categories which are creeping phlox and garden phlox but there are other less common varieties as well. Large clusters of flowers called panicles sit atop stems that grow 3 to 4 feet 91 cm. Garden phlox summer phlox tall phlox border phlox.

A reliable bloomer with a high resistance to mildew phlox paniculata nicky is an herbaceous perennial with large pyramidal clusters of dark magenta purple flowers the darkest of all tall garden phlox. To 1 m tall. Garden phlox prefers fertile soil that stays moist. It also comes with a variety of colorful blooms that range from a pale blue to a deep red.

These perennial flowers are often used as background plants in narrow borders or in groups between taller and shorter plants in a wide border. It is a member of the polemoniaceae family and it comes in more than 50 different varieties. Several cultivars that are still grown in gardens today were developed in. Tall garden phlox are hardy and vigorous when grown in the right conditions.