It has long been known that the true Pinkroot was adulterated, but this adulteration was supposed to be caused by the admixture of Carolina phlox (Phlox Carolina L.
Languidly she looked about her; the clumps of whitephlox seemed like bushes spread with linen; a moth ricochetted over them, and right across the garden.
A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her.
Shaded stars have a fine effect on a lawn; cut a star and plant it with either Verbenas, Petunias, Phlox Drummondii, or Portulaca.
We wheeled out the phlox plants and set them in the circular beds ringing the sundial, working on boards laid down on the ground, for my grass seed was sprouting, if rather spindly and in patches.
Nearly all our perennials had come through the winter, thanks to the sixty-seven days of snow, and the one plant of blue May phlox which had survived its fall planting made us eager for a second trial, the next time in early spring.
Stella, with a cry of grief, ran down the brook into the pines, and came back with sadly bedraggled Phlox Drummondi plants in her hands, their trailing roots washed white, their blooms broken.
Phlox is a plant that wants free circulation of air.
He knows what it will produce, but why one phlox seed will produce a red blossom and another a white is to him a miracle.
The phlox and delphinium bloomed again in a little while, and in September the candidum lilies began to come through the ground, getting ready for next year.
Away to the west is a spruce hedge and inside the hedge red hollyhocks and phlox with a great row of crimson poppies.
If we leave bunches of phlox in the same place successive years they become small.
We know this, phlox should be divided every third year.
In this border I have at last found a place for the magenta phlox that usually fights with the whole garden.
On the other hand, phlox set in the spring scarcely ever fails to bloom in the late summer or early fall, and keeps it up until freezing weather.
For many years, in Austin, we had iris, peonies and phlox in our garden.
The perennial phlox is one of the most beautiful flowers we have, and there has been considerable trouble this year with a rust which takes all the leaves off the stalk and is injurious to the blossoms.
It seems that changing the location of the phlox may do it good.
In the middle of the summer it was one tangled mass of lilies, delphinium, phloxand gypsophila, their perfume filling the whole garden.
With the phlox we have had more trouble, sometimes in dry seasons not getting the bloom we should, and finally, the last year we were there, losing nearly all the roots we had.
The phlox sent up tiny shoots for new bloom from the base of each leaf, and the second crop of bachelor buttons came along.
The violas--with such a wide range of color--make lovely backgrounds for the later tulips, as also do the creeping phlox and the native lavender blue divaricata phlox.
Phlox Drummondii is an old favorite that holds its own against any of the new-comers.
It is not too late to set out seedling plants of such perennials as phlox and hollyhock if care is taken to lift enough soil with them to insure against disturbance of their roots.
A circular bed filled with pink, white, and pale-yellow phlox drummondii in rows of each color will be found pleasing, and it has the merit of being easily made.
Illustration: The tall-growing hardy phlox is a garden mainstay through August, September and October.
Phlox The tall-growing hardy phloxshould be in all gardens.
Then you will see where some daring gardener has bordered the beds with Phloxor Snapdragon, and you will feel compelled to admire the result.
A garden at the other extreme of the State, in the Adirondack Mountains, planted to begin with early Tulips, Phlox divaricata, and others of this period, will make its display about June 1.
The wild flowers all about were so close to these that all their perfumes blended, and the phlox and pinks could see their own cousins but a few feet away.
Sweet Williams, Columbines, Sweet Alyssum, Candytuft, Nasturtiums and Phlox Drummondii can all be grown as edging for borders.
Phlox Drummondii, many colours; one foot; blooms July, August and September if not allowed to seed.
In front of the Phlox sow a row of Centaurea or Cornflowers, the Emperor William variety.
For instance, take a fine large plant of Phlox of some choice variety, divide all the roots and set out each one separately.
By breaking off the heads of Phlox immediately after blooming, a second crop of flowers will appear in about three weeks.
By skilful hybridization a hundred or more kinds of Phlox have been developed.
Phlox Drummondii grows about six or eight inches high, and comes in many colours.
The Rocky Mountain sheep is as interesting and audacious as the chamois; the fair phlox dares greater heights than the famed edelweiss.
There are diminutive bellflowers that rise only half an inch above the earth and masses of cushion pinks and tiny phloxstill finer and shorter.
The light and graceful gypsophylis and phlox were in bloom; gladioli were just coming out; and the horse-chestnut trees were all in gorgeous blossom.
No matter in what corner scarlet salvia and vermilion nasturtiums may be planted, they are sure to get in range with the pink verbenas and magenta phlox in a teeth-on-edge way.
Gleam now phlox and hollyhock; I look on joyous garden site, And know that soon the crystal bells Will tinkle in the light.
In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses, giving background and body with its wonderful deep green foliage, which is greener and thicker than any other phlox I know.
I take them up and set them out near the main phlox masses, and wait for the next season’s blossoming before I give them their final place.
White phlox I had, and have—an inheritance—which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year.
I decree certain paths, and the phlox says, “Paths?
Here and there I have let the pink and lavender phlox come in, for they begin to bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden needs color.
For thisphlox needs almost no care, and will fight grass and weeds for itself.
There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the garden, but I have no way of telling what color they are, though usually I can detect the white by its foliage.
My white phlox is really the most distinguished thing in my garden.
An excellent flower for sowing during May is the common annual Phlox (Phlox Drummondii of the catalogues).
Pansies from foggy England and bulbs from the lowlands of Holland should be planted to bloom in the cool days of spring, and the phlox from Texas will prosper in the heat and drought of July and August.
We have bulbs from Holland, and pansies from England, and phlox from the dry atmosphere of Texas.
I have, too, some of the fine varieties of "Phlox Drummondi.
It is not without touches of remorse that I deliberately uproot anything that bears the name of flower, but, since I could remember, there has been a deadly feud between purple Phlox and myself.
Another most desirable plant for the perennial border is Phlox (from the Greek flame).
Fill in depressions with soil and plant there and around the edges of the boulder Phlox subulata, sedum, arabis, etc.
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