The following spring they will increase in stature.Ī thing to be cautious about is fertilizing peonies. Peonies that are not well-established (from roots planted only last October) usually do not bloom their first spring, or, if they do bloom, they produce flowers not up to snuff. (Otherwise it is a nuisance to keep them watered enough to prevent wilting.)
Every third year the clumps should be divided, either after the bloom season ends or in spring when the new shoots are not more than three inches high. Greedy gardeners have trouble thinning their phloxes, but the best results (the flowers are larger and showier) come from pinching out all but five of the stems. They are avoided by growing new plants from cuttings, instead of dividing the roots. More distressing are the eelworms which make the plants so stunted they are not worth growing. I prefer to ignore both (as who does not) and often they are no problem, especially if the phlox are given good sunny open positions and rich soil to begin with. Two common nuisances with phlox are red spider mites and mildew. The standard red phlox nowadays is 'Starfire,' which is scarlet, but there are also rose-reds like 'Windsor.' It consorts better with the rose pinks than the salmons, however. Symons-Jeune.' One of the handsomest of all phloxes is 'Dodo Hanbury Forbes,' which is a pink with a trifle of blue in it and passes for clear pink. Pinks tend toward salmon - yellow in the pink - like 'Sir John Falstaff' or toward rose - blue in the pink - like 'Charles Durant' and 'B. It is not so big and bouncy as the later kinds, like 'Mount Fujiyama' or 'White Admiral.' 'Miss Lingard' is an early sort that blooms off and on, about knee height, and vastly admired. White phloxes are especially admired at night when they show up well. In case you wondered, the lavendar and purple varieties like 'Amethyst' and 'Russian Violet' are distinct shades of violet and are not magenta. This time of year you see phlox plants in cans at garden centers, and if these are planted now and watered well they will bloom freely this summer. Refined people speak of screaming red or screaming yellow flowers, though equally garish. I do not, myself, despise the magenta phlox (which is what you often get if you let the garden hybirds go to seed and grow up) but most gardeners sneer at it. Pink, white, crimson, scarlet and purple are the main colors.
Phloxes usually fail in half-shady places, but where tomatoes flourish, the phlox does very well.
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In tiny gardens in town I doubt you would want phlox, since they take as much space as peonies and have a somewhat weedy air to them even when well grown.īut in wide borders or, for that matter, in a solid bed, nothing is more festive in late summer, provided there is full sun, deep soil and plenty of water available. THE GARDEN phlox blooms madly in late July and August as the daylilies begin fading away.
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