Cottage Pinks

This selection has fully double petals in soft pink with dark pink striping.

Cottage pinks. The devon cottage series of pinks are midsized in habit offering spicy fragrant blooms from spring right into the autumn over a low mound of grassy blue green leaves. Dianthus plants range from tiny creeping groundcovers to 30 inch tall cut flowers which are a favorite with florists. Dianthus also called pinks is treasured for its grasslike blue green foliage and abundant starry flowers which are often spicily fragrant.

Great for borders or in containers. They are held at the end of their slim stems singly or in loose clusters. Cottage pinks have been cultivated for centuries and are used in developing the modern hybrids.

Water them during dry periods once or twice per week. Pinks plants are very easy to grow. How to grow cottage pinks plants.

Cutting back flowers promotes longer bloom. The dianthus plant is the quintessential cottage flower. They will do well in average soils but prefer rich soils.

Wp15 mow08 also known as border pinks. A mat forming perennial to 20 inches tall that produces pink white purple or bicolored flowers with dark centers. Flowers are spicily fragrant in rose pink or white with single or double flowers lightly to heavily fringed bloom in late spring and summer they are a mainstay of the cottage garden providing an attractive edging for peonies or roses.