(Clove Pinks, Cottage Pinks, Spring Beauty Pinks)

The fragrant, single to semi-double blossoms of ‘Spring Beauty’ border pink add brilliance to the summer garden. Appearing in various shades of pink, rose, salmon and white, the fringed, spice-scented flowers of this seed-grown strain bloom from late spring to midsummer. They rise on slender stems from spreading, evergreen clumps of linear, blue-green leaves, and may attract small bees and butterflies.

Like most Border pinks, ‘Spring Beauty’ grows and flowers best in full to part sun and average,...

(Dianthus)

The genus Dianthus comprises approximately 300 species and more than 27,000 cultivars. Collectively known as “pinks”, these showy flowering plants have been grown for many hundreds of years. Their common name was given for the sharply-toothed petal tips of their flowers, which look like they were cut by pinking shears.

Nearly all Dianthus species hail from Eurasia and northern Africa, while only one originates from North America. Most are herbaceous tender perennials; however...

(Blue Pygmy Dianthus, Dianthus)

The genus Dianthus comprises approximately 300 species and more than 27,000 cultivars. Collectively known as “pinks”, these showy flowering plants have been grown for many hundreds of years. Their common name was given for the sharply-toothed petal tips of their flowers, which look like they were cut by pinking shears.

Nearly all Dianthus species hail from Eurasia and northern Africa, while only one originates from North America. Most are herbaceous tender perennials; however...

(Fringed Pink)

The genus Dianthus comprises approximately 300 species and more than 27,000 cultivars. Collectively known as “pinks”, these showy flowering plants have been grown for many hundreds of years. Their common name was given for the sharply-toothed petal tips of their flowers, which look like they were cut by pinking shears.

Nearly all Dianthus species hail from Eurasia and northern Africa, while only one originates from North America. Most are herbaceous tender perennials; however...

(Silver Dichondra, Silver Ponysfoot)

Dichondra is a low-maintenance, creeping or trailing plant native to the southwestern United States. It is an evergreen perennial in warm climates but is often used as an annual in frost-prone climates. The flowers are small and insignificant. The leaves are heart-shaped to kidney-shaped and attached to long, trailing stems. This vigorously fast growing plant can grow very long in just one season.

Dichondra is very heat and drought tolerant and requires well-drained soil and full sun. Use it...

(Asian Ponysfoot, Dichondra, Kidneyweed)

With emerald green to grayish green leaves that look like tiny waterlily pads, Asian ponysfoot is a low spreading groundcover once heavily used as a substitute for turfgrass in warm climates. An herbaceous tender perennial from eastern Asia, it sprawls outward and sends out roots from the horizontal stems as it creeps.

The small leaves are lush green to slightly grayish green are are shaped like a kidney or more rounded and like a waterlily leaf. In summer and fall, tiny flowers appear, ranging...

(Large Yellow Foxglove, Yellow Foxglove)

Yellow foxglove is native to southern Europe, Siberia and Turkey. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial loved for its spring to summer tall flower spikes of pendulous pale yellow flowers which are tubular and marked with brown on the inside. Tall narrow-leaved stems arise from a clump-forming mound of medium green foliage. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped, soft and alternate on the flower stems. Both stems and leaves are softly fuzzy. The fruit is a capsule filled with seeds. Yellow foxglove...

(Carillion Yellow Foxglove, Yellow Foxglove)

Yellow foxglove is native to southern Europe, Siberia and Turkey. The cultivar ‘Carillion’ is a biennial or short-lived perennial dwarf selection loved for its spring to summer flower spikes of pendulous pale yellow flowers which are tubular and marked with brown on the inside. Narrow-leaved stems rise above the mound of medium green foliage. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped, soft and alternate on the flower stems. Both stems and leaves are softly fuzzy. The fruit is a capsule filled with seeds....

(Temple Bells Foxglove, Yellow Foxglove)

Yellow foxglove is native to southern Europe, Siberia and Turkey. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial loved for its spring to summer tall flower spikes of pendulous pale yellow flowers which are tubular and marked with brown on the inside. Tall narrow-leaved stems arise from a clump-forming mound of medium green foliage. The leaves are oval to lance-shaped, soft and alternate on the flower stems. Both stems and leaves are softly fuzzy. The fruit is a capsule filled with seeds. Yellow foxglove...

(Common Foxglove, Purple Foxglove)

A cottage garden classic, foxglove is a short-lived perennial (commonly listed as a biennial) that is native to the Mediterranean regions of Europe. In spring it produces basal rosettes of soft green leaves. By late spring to early summer tall, upright stems lined with lightly fragrant, tubular, rose-purple to pink flowers appear. These typically have spotted throats and are highly attractive to bees. There are many cultivars available that offer a broader color palette to include apricot, white...