Growth: 3 1/2-4 ft. in the early part of the season. Produces 4-6 in. ball of carnation-like fragrant flowers that humming birds love.
Flowers: Grow and last 2-4 months in the latter part of the season in the North. Flowers will last longer in the South. They really decorate a yard very well, even before the flowers come out. They grow up from the ground every year.
Conditions For Growing: They like full to half sunlight. The flowers prefer not to be sprayed with large spray by hand or by oscillating sprinkler, but they can handle smaller droplet just fine, such as a pop up lawn sprinkler.
Look at these planting directions to get the idea of what should be done to plant these Phlox.
SPRUCEWOOD FARM PLANTING DIRECTION
PHLOX Plant them 2.3 feet apart. They can handle full or part sunlight. They do not like to be sprinkled with large droplets such as from an oscillating sprinkler. A pop up one should be fine. Fertilize about the same amount as the spruce and cedar, but do it every 2 weeks as they grow fast. Be careful not to put the fertilizer touching the plant so as to burn it with the nitrogen.
The fourth year they should be taken up and divided.
PLEASE CALL US or EMAIL US IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS-WE REALLY WANT TO HELP! Sprucewood Farm, 91 Casey Rd, Newport, WA 99156
800 615 3405 OR sprucewood@fasttrees.com.
