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  • Dianthus cruentus Blood pink  Z 5-9

    Small but eye-catching carmine flowers held high on a leafless stem above basal foliage.  Blooms in late spring-early summer

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    Small but eye-catching carmine flowers held high on a leafless stem above basal foliage.  Blooms in late spring-early summer

    Size: 2-3’ x 6-9”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Balkans
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees & butterflies

    First described in Spic. Fl. Rumel. 1: 186 1843.

  • Dianthus deltoides Maiden pink Z 3-9

    May - June and longer if deadhead   bright pink or white

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    May – June and longer if deadhead, bright pink or white

    Size: 8”x 12”
    Care: Full sun well-drained soil, slightly alkaline
    Native: Scotland to Norway
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

    Deltoides refers to the inverted V-shaped pocket at the base of the petals. D. deltoides 1st identified in 1671 by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624) in Pinax theatri botanici, a landmark of botany, describing and classifying some 6,000 plants.

  • Dianthus gratianopolitanus Cheddar pink

    Sun in well drained soil Z 3-8

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    Summer, deep pink, fragrant flowers atop 6″ tall mounds of slender, silvery blue foliage.

    Size: 6" x 16"
    Care: Sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Deer resistant.
    Native: Northwest and central Europe

    Theophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.”  The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals.  Name “cheddar” from the Cheddar Gorge in England. American cultivation since 1800’s. Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

  • Dianthus myrtinervius Albanina pink Z 4-9

    Dark pink “pinks” with pale centers spring from dwarf cushions in early summer on this alpine.

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    Dark pink “pinks” with pale centers spring from dwarf cushions in early summer on this alpine.

    Size: 4” x 6”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Albania

    Theophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.” The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals.   In 1629 John Parkinson described the Dianthus:”There remain divers sorts of wild or small Gilloflowers (which wee usually call Pinkes) to be entreated of, some bearing single, and some double flowers, some smooth, almost without any deepe dents on the edges, and some ragged, or as it were feathered. Some growing upright like unto Gilloflowers, others creeping… some of one colour, some of another, and many of divers colours.” This species collected before 1843.

  • Dianthus petraeus Z 4-8

    Evergreen foliage with fragrant, serrated, solitary white flowers in mid-summer

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    Evergreen foliage with fragrant, serrated, solitary white flowers in mid-summer

    Size: 4-6” x 6-8”
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Mountain ranges of Central Europe
    Wildlife Value: Deer Resistant

    Collected before 1823

  • Dianthus pinifolius Pineleaf garden pink Z 4-9

    Crimson clusters on wiry stems high above narrow-leaved, glaucous foliage, blooming in late spring to early summer

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    Crimson clusters on wiry stems high above narrow-leaved, galucious foliage, blooming in late spring to early summer

    Size: 12” x 6”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Balkan Peninsula & Romania

    Described before 1796.

  • Dianthus subacaulis Pyrenees pink Z 5-9

    Blue-grey, tight, flat foliage, spreads to form a carpet with single pink flowers held above the leaves in spring.

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    Blue-grey, tight, flat foliage, spreads to form a carpet with single pink flowers held above the leaves in spring.

    Size: foliage 1”, flowers 2” x 12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Pyrenees mountains

    1st described in literature in Histoire des Plantes de Dauphiné, 1789.

  • Dianthus sylvestris Woodland pink Z 4-8

    Five, jagged-edged pink petals early summer on this sweet, fragrant flower.

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    Five, jagged-edged pink petals early summer on this sweet, fragrant flower.

    Size: 10” x 10”
    Care: full sun in dry, well-drained soil
    Native: Moutains of Central & So. Europe

    Bailey wrote: “pretty perennial border plant.”  Collected before 1787.