Moss Or Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue' inwards Carina Wong's front end garden.
Mom ever referred to Phlox subulata as Creeping Phlox, but Moss Phlox seems to hold upwardly the mutual parent I take heed to a greater extent than oftentimes these days. Phlox subulata flowers for a number of weeks inwards early on spring as well as forms a depression mound of green, needle-like foliage. The star-shaped flowers have 5 petal-like lobes that are notched on the exterior edge.
The native cast of Phlox subulata tin hold upwardly found on rocky, sandy slopes as well as opened upwardly woodlands inwards Michigan, Ontario as well as inwards a large expanse that runs from New York southward to Tennessee. Modern cultivars come upwardly inwards an array of colors including pinks, reds, purples, white as well as white striped with hot pink.
Moss Phlox is fairly adaptable to a multifariousness of soil types, but the soil must be well-drained. I can't stress this enough. Nothing volition kill your Moss Phlox quicker than cold, soggy soil inwards the wintertime. If your soil isn't free-draining, amend it with fine pebbles, sand as well as organic material.
Moss Phlox prefers evenly moist conditions, as well as therefore H2O immature plants until they are established. Even later Moss phlox has settled in, it soundless may demand a supplemental watering during periods of prolonged drought.
Full sun will create the best demo of flowers. In southern gardening zones however, Moss Phlox volition appreciate a niggling divulge from the estrus of the afternoon sun.
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue' in the garden of Marion Jarvie inwards Thornhill, ON.
A cushion of lavender-pink flowers inwards Marion Jarvie's garden.
Here pinkish Moss Phlox mixes with white Arabis inwards the gravelly soil of the stone garden at the Agricultural Campus of Dalhousie University inwards Truro, N.S.
The somewhat messy appearance of Phlox subulata later it flowers.
Ongoing Care
After the saltation flowers fade as well as plow dark-brown inwards slow spring, Phlox subulata tin await a flake scruffy as well as untidy. Give your works life a calorie-free haircut to take the spent flowers as well as promote fresh foliage. If you're lucky, you lot mightiness fifty-fifty run across a niggling flake of reblooming.
After a few years, the plant's stems tin conk woody as well as volition create fewer as well as fewer flowers. To receive fresh increment as well as to a greater extent than springtime blooms, cutting the stems dorsum past times half.
If you lot desire to carve upwardly your Moss Phlox, exercise it inwards early on saltation merely later they accept finished flowering.
Cultivars to Collect
In the pictures below, 1 cultivar may seem pretty much similar whatsoever other with the exception of the bloom color. There are differences however:
Some cultivars grow to a greater extent than speedily than others. The needle-like leafage tin likewise hold upwardly finer as well as to a greater extent than dense on closed to cultivars. Finally the flowers vary inwards size. When you lot exercise your shopping, you'll banking concern complaint these distinctions much ameliorate than you lot volition inwards my pictures.
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue' is a pop cultivar for all the correct reasons as well as is a keen 1 to starting fourth dimension with.
Phlox subulata 'Violet Pinwheels' has intense violet-purple flowers inwards early on spring. Plant inwards total sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 10-15 cm (4-6 inches), Spread 60-90 cm (23-35 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Phlox subulata 'Pink Emerald' has pinkish flowers with a hot pinkish eye. Plant inwards total sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 15-20 cm (6-8 inches), Spread: 30-45 cm (12-18 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Phlox subulata 'Purple Beauty' has magenta flowers with a majestic flash at the bloom centre. Plant inwards total sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 15-20 cm (6-8 inches), Spread 30-45 cm (12-18 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Phlox subulata 'Crimson Beauty' rose-pink flowers with a magenta flash at the bloom centre. Plant inwards total sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 10-15 cm (4-6 inches), Spread 30-45 cm (12-18 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue' soft lavander colored flowers with a majestic flash at the bloom centre. Plant inwards total sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 15-20 cm (4-6 inches), Spread 30-60 cm (12-24 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Phlox subulata 'White Delight' has large white star-shaped flowers inwards Apr or May. Full sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: 15-20 cm (6-8 inches), Spread: 30-60 cm (12-24 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Other white cultivars: 'Cotton Candy', 'Early White', 'Spring white'
Phlox subulata 'Candy Stripe' has masses of white flowers with a hot pinkish downwards the centre of the petal. Full sun. Average, well-drained soil. Height: xx cm (8 inches), Spread 30-45 cm (12-18 inches). USDA zones:3-9.
Several types of Moss Phlox in the somebody garden of Marion Jarvie.
Companion Planting
Moss Phlox is virtually often used inwards rockeries where it fits inwards good with other alpine as well as stone garden plants.
Its depression carpeting of blooms likewise makes a keen understory for daffodils as well as tulips. It tin likewise await terrific planted with early on flowering hellebores.
Plant type: Perennial
Height: 4-8 inches (10-20 cm)
Spread: 12-24 inches (30-60 cm)
Flower: Star-shaped flowers inwards a multifariousness of colors
Bloom period: Early spring
Leaf: Green, needle-like foliage
Light: Full sun
Soil: Average, but must hold upwardly well-drained
Moisture conditions: Prefers evenly moist, but free-drained soil
Divide: In saltation later flowering
Deer Resistant: Somewhat deer resistant, but rabbits volition swallow this plant
Problems: Leaf miners, mites as well as caterpillars tin hold upwardly an issue. Other issues include rust, mildew, blight as well as stalk canker
USDA Zones: 3-9
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