My spring phlox (the tall purple stuff) began blooming this week. It's a rather weedy plant, but I like it in combination with the orange poppies. It reseeds everywhere, but I just yank it out in early spring if it comes up in places where I don't want it.
This is a view I probably have not shown you before. It shows both my large rockwall garden and the small rockwall area.
Kia Ora (Hello) from NEW ZEALAND. If you click on the photo to make it bigger and put your nose to the screen, you can just about "smell" the flowers !!! (hehe)
What you call spring phlox I call Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis). Google it and see if they are the same plant. Wonderful fragrance especially in the evening.
Zoey, I aways think of it as phlox too because it looks like phlox, but it is 'rocket' I think. I was going to ask the same question as kathy, until I read her comment. I have some of it too and was just out taking photos of it this afternoon. Love the perfume and also love seeing it along the roadsides. You're ahead of me too!
Look carefully, ladies, Dame's rocket flowers have 4 petals, bona fide phlox has five. Dame's rocket is actually in the same family as mustards and brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, etc.). Bet you never smelled a cabbage that (nicely) fragrant!
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Lovely photo. The purple and orange look wonderful together.
ReplyDeleteWe're both zone 5 but I'm definitely behind you in the blooming department.
What a gorgeous garden!
ReplyDeleteKia Ora (Hello) from NEW ZEALAND. If you click on the photo to make it bigger and put your nose to the screen, you can just about "smell" the flowers !!! (hehe)
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful Zoey...the colours are gorgeous too!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone. I have been tempted to get rid of all those "bad" poppies, but I think I need that burst color for the short time it lasts.
ReplyDeleteEmpress, I can't believe I am ahead of somebody! Usually everyone else's plants are done flowering before mine begin.
Gorgeous! You should be part of a garden tour. Do they have them in your neck of the woods?
ReplyDeleteWhat you call spring phlox I call Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis). Google it and see if they are the same plant. Wonderful fragrance especially in the evening.
ReplyDeleteYes, Kathy, I think they must be the same, because it is also called "Dame's Rocket" here. My MIL always referred to hers as "spring phlox".
ReplyDeleteZoey, I aways think of it as phlox too because it looks like phlox, but it is 'rocket' I think. I was going to ask the same question as kathy, until I read her comment.
ReplyDeleteI have some of it too and was just out taking photos of it this afternoon. Love the perfume and also love seeing it along the roadsides.
You're ahead of me too!
Look carefully, ladies, Dame's rocket flowers have 4 petals, bona fide phlox has five. Dame's rocket is actually in the same family as mustards and brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, etc.). Bet you never smelled a cabbage that (nicely) fragrant!
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