Unit Description: 50 Plants / Tray
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| Family: | POLEMONIACEAE |
| Genus: | Phlox |
| Species: | adsurgens |
| Cultivar: | Wagon Wheels |
Category: | ALPINES |
Current Availability:
16 Tray/s Available
Description
Low growing, ovate leaves. Large pink and white deeply-cut flowers which necessitate the name 'Wagon Wheels'.
Height / Spread / Trail
10 x 30cm
Flowering Time
April - June & September
Possible Situation
At home in dry gravel beds, rock gardens, banks, walls, bright borders or in a container with dwarf lavenders or Sedums.
Ideal Conditions
Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil or compost.
Temperature Tolerance
A hardy plant which should survive normal winter conditions outside, especially if protected from the hardest frosts.
Suggested pot sizes to transplant plugs : 11cm : 1 Litre
Brought over to the UK in 1825, this alpine has beautiful, bright sky-blue flowers for most of the summer. | Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii 'Chattahooche' Semi-upright, spreading habit under large clusters of blue-violet, red eyed flowers. |
A rich, bright red semi-double flower on tall deep bronze foliage. An old variety, but with freedom from virus, one of the best. | Silver-grey foliage with large papery, white flowers. |
Variegated foliage, just like 'Doctor Mules Variegata' but with purple-red flowers. |