Garden Phlox. They also add height, heft, and charm to a border. Using in the garden: Few perennials can perk up the languishing midsummer landscape like garden phlox.
Phlox comes in two forms - there is Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata), which is an upright flower that grows to about three feet. Garden phlox are particularly susceptible to powdery mildew, a foliar disease. Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata), is a spring groundcover that stays green for most of the year.
The fruit is a longitudinally dehiscent capsule with three or more valves that sometimes separate explosively.
Garden Phlox brings lasting, mid summer color to the landscape on tall, thick columns of flowers, and are some of the easiest perennials to grow.
Regardless of flower color, garden phlox is attractive to hummingbirds and is a good selection for inclusion in a bird garden. Using in the garden: Few perennials can perk up the languishing midsummer landscape like garden phlox. The striking and fragrant trumpet-shaped flower clusters appear in the mid-summer and always deliver a spectacular display of color when they are blooming.