In a species with a bewildering number of cultivars in the same soft lavender-blue, the flower color is distinctive: a deeper purple-viol...Read Moreet with a darker reddish eye. It makes a good color combination with forget-me-nots (which the species does not).
I've read that this may be an interspecies hybrid and not pure P. divaricata.
This is a beautiful ground cover that blooms for many weeks in early spring. It is blooming now, and once the proper time for propagatio...Read Moren is discovered, I'm going to spread it around. It is growing in almost full shade, although during the winter, it gets sun because there are no leaves on the trees.
San Antonio, Tx.
I was lucky enough to find small transplants of the Phlox divaricata last year. I bought four to test them out to...Read More be sure that they would grow well in my location. They are planted under a crepe myrtle tree where they receive a few hours of morning sun and afternoon shade. I enriched the soil by adding a lot of compost. It took them quite sometime before they began to look robust and I was afraid that they may not do well. By the fall they had begun to spread (the word "divaricate" in the name means "widely spreading"). When cool weather arrived, the foliage began to develop a nice purplish tone. This spring they are thriving with bright green new foliage growing over the top of the purple tinged leaves and have been blooming for quite some time.
Although the plant has a shallow root system and many references say to mulch around them in the summer, I found this to be unnecessary; besides, I wanted them to spread and I did not want the mulch to intefere with this. But if it is too sunny or too dry where they have been planted, blooming will decrease and the foliage will brown. It can develop powdery mildew, however. It is a wonderful ground cover.
When observing the photos of Phlox divaricata, I was interested in the many different shades of blooms. The variety I have is 'Louisiana Purple'. Listed below are some other cultivars with their bloom colors:
'Clouds of Perfume' - Ice blue
'Fullers White' - White
'Laphammi' - Lavender blue; has larger flowers, deeper color, and blooms later than most other varieties; grows 18 to 20 inches tall
Wild Blue Phlox - pale violet-blue, 8-12 inches talls, a perennial wildflower
In a species with a bewildering number of cultivars in the same soft lavender-blue, the flower color is distinctive: a deeper purple-viol...Read More
This is a beautiful ground cover that blooms for many weeks in early spring. It is blooming now, and once the proper time for propagatio...Read More
Grows and flowers well in almost full sun in my Zone 7b garden. Is evergreen through three winters so far.
San Antonio, Tx.
I was lucky enough to find small transplants of the Phlox divaricata last year. I bought four to test them out to...Read More