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Dendranthema weyrichii syn. Chrysanthemum weyrichii Alpine daisy Z 4-8
Pink or white daisies all summer and fall
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Pink or white daisies all summer and fall. One of the best for groundcover, front of border or rock garden plant.
Size: 6” x 18”
Care: sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: East Asia & eastern RussiaCollected before 1891
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Dianthus anatolicus Anatolian pink Z 5-10
Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
Size: 3” x 6”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Turkey to TibetTheophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.” The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals. In 1629 John Parkinson described the Dianthus: “There remain divers sorts of wild or small Gilloflowers (which wee usually call Pinkes) to be entreated of, some bearing single, and some double flowers, some smooth, almost without any deepe dents on the edges, and some ragged, or as it were feathered.” This species described in Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 1: 22. 1843.
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Dianthus arpadianus
Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage
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Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage
Size: 3” x 3”
Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Greece & TurkeyCollected before 1934
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Dianthus carthusianorum Clusterhead Pink
Deep reddish pink flowers atop wiry stems from June until frost
Rosy carmine pink flowers atop wiry stems from June until frost
Size: 16" x 8"
Care: Full sun moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Deer resistant & drought tolerant
Native: Central and southern Europe
Wildlife Value: attract hummingbirdsClusterhead pink may have come into gardens with the Carthusian monks in the 1100’s. American gardens since 1800’s.
