{"id":14810,"date":"2012-11-18T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2012-11-18T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:11:43","slug":"why-grow-phlox-divaricata-clouds-of-perfume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/why-grow-phlox-divaricata-clouds-of-perfume\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Grow Phlox divaricata ‘Clouds of Perfume’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have hopefully just bought a smelly plant for spring flowering in my rockery. Phlox divaricata ‘Clouds of Perfume’ is a woodland plant that also thrives in walls, borders or on banking. Versatile of what?<\/p>\n

\"Wild<\/a><\/p>\n

Facts about Phlox divaricata <\/strong>
\nIt will grow 12″ tall and spread as a cushion 24″ wide.
\nThis Phlox is semi evergreen and likes well drained soil.
\nIt is also called wild phlox and grows as a weed in North America.
\nOther common names include Wild Sweet William, Louisiana Phlox, and Blue Phlox.
\nThere are 67 species of annual and perennial Phlox according to wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why I bought Phlox divaricata ‘Clouds of Perfume’<\/strong>
\nThe flowers are powder blue, a cool shade I long to grow in my garden.
\nThe bonus of a mass of flowers giving out a good scent was a second incentive.
\nRegular readers will know I am mean (I prefer to say thrifty) and I paid \u00c2\u00a31.50 for a large pot that was in an end of season sale. I have taken 6 rooted cuttings or divisions from the one plant and so I think I got a bargain.
\n\"Phlox<\/a>
\nOther Varieties<\/strong>
\nPhlox divaricata’Blue Moon’, Phlox divaricata’Chattahoochee’is lavender coloured, and white varieties of Phlox divaricata include ‘Fuller’s White’ and ‘White Perfume’.
\nPhlox from Thompson & Morgan<\/a>
\nPhlox Divaricata \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Montrose Tricolor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d above has variegated leaves and lilac-lavender coloured flowers.<\/p>\n

Growing Hints<\/strong>
\nPot grown plants should be watered well before planting.
\nCarefully remove from the pot and place in a prepared hole and firm the soil around the roots.
\nIf the plant is pot bound tease out the roots or separate off some cuttings.
\nWater until the Phlox is established.<\/p>\n

\"Phlox<\/a>
\nPhlox adsurgens ‘Wagon Wheels’ <\/strong>is another low growing perennial favourite of mine in the Polemoniaceae family.<\/p>\n

Photo Credits
\nWild Phlox by winged photography CC BY-NC 2.0
\nPhlox Divaricata \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Montrose Tricolor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Flowers at Rooftop Garden of Higashi-shinagawa Pump Facility by ykanazawa1999 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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I have hopefully just bought a smelly plant for spring flowering in my rockery. The pink Phlox adsurgens shown is not very scented. My new Phlox divaricata ‘Clouds of Perfume’ is a woodland plant that also thrives in walls, borders or on banking. Versatile of what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alpine-rockery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}