THESE pretty low-growing plants provide rockeries and scree beds with plenty of colour at this time of year thanks to their pink, blue and white flowers which tumble over walls or create flat carpets ...

Grown well, tall garden phlox are the glory of the midsummer garden, with their lush, vividly-colored flower panicles lending substance to any perennial border. Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, took ...

Gardeners often spend a lot of time deciding where to plant perennials, considering things like color, shape, and texture. Knowing the mature height of your perennials is key to choosing the best ...

* What it is: A tall, upright native perennial flower with narrow green leaves and clusters of vivid rosy-pink flowers from July into September. This one is particularly mildew-resistant and was the ...

Phlox is probably the garden's most under-appreciated plant. The cottage classic is often dismissed as summer garden "filler," like baby's breath or leather fern in a bouquet. Older varieties, ...

They are among my favourite rockery plants, their flat heads of brightly coloured blooms providing a wealth of colour in rockeries, tumbling over walls and providing masses of colour in alpine ...

They are among my favourite rockery plants, their flat heads of brightly coloured blooms providing a wealth of colour in rockeries, tumbling over walls and providing masses of colour in alpine ...

Dwarf phlox is among my all-time favourite rockery plants, its petite colourful starry flowers cascading over walls, filling in gaps in the scree bed or brightening up alpine troughs in an array of ...