Gardeners across the country cherish phlox, but it is one of dozens of plants that get passed over because it is typically not in bloom when it's shopping time. Called summer phlox or garden phlox, it ...

Q: A friend who lives in a local mountain community just gave me a division of one of her garden plants with pink flowers that she called phlox. Will it take our summer heat and low winter chill ...

These are the days that try a gardener’s soul. It’s hot and humid, it hardly ever rains, and most plants look like you laid them on a griddle. Be stout of heart, though. There’s one perennial looking ...

‘Tis the season of summer phlox and black-eyed Susans. The light to dark pink blossoms of the phlox intermingle with the bold yellow petals and dark centers of the black-eyed Susans. Their presence in ...

Phlox is probably the garden's most under-appreciated plant. The cottage classic is often dismissed as summer garden "filler," like baby's breath or leather fern in a bouquet. Older varieties, ...

Gardeners across the country cherish phlox, but it is one of dozens of plants that get passed over because it is typically not in bloom when it's shopping time. The phlox I am referring to is called ...

Recently I was given the task of writing a garden piece on a topic I wish I had. Sounds like a writer trap, doesn’t it? Although I am still writing that piece, I also wish I had planted more Luminary ...

· Summer phlox (Phlox paniculata). Fragrant flowers of summer phlox come in large, dome-shaped clusters on plants 3 or more feet tall. Magenta, pink, rose, lavender and white. Some have a contrasting ...

Growing on the edge of our upper pond is a beautiful mass of purple phlox. I enjoy looking out the window and seeing them wave in the breeze, and I especially enjoy sitting at the upper pond and ...

Recently, I was given the task of writing a garden piece on a topic I wish I had. Sounds like a writer trap, doesn’t it? Although I am still writing that piece, I also wish I had planted more Luminary ...