Phlox paniculata, commonly known as garden phlox, is a native perennial that grows wild in woodlands and open fields and on cliffs. Its many cultivars are favorites for the home garden in a perennial ...

Grown well, tall garden phlox are the glory of the midsummer garden, with their lush, vividly-colored flower panicles lending substance to any perennial border. Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, took ...

Phlox paniculata is a wonderful perennial plant to have in the garden. Phlox paniculata, sometimes referred to as “garden phlox” or “summer phlox,” is native to North America. From the turn of the ...

Phlox paniculata has a wide native range from central New York and south through North Carolina, parts of northwestern Georgia and Mississippi and westward through the Midwest, Arkansas and Iowa. It ...

Q: When should garden phlox be pinched back? A: Tracy DiSabato-Aust, a well-regarded author and horticulturist from central Ohio, recommends cutting Phlox paniculata back by one-half before it flowers ...

Certain fragrances can bring on a rush of nostalgia. A waft of border phlox and suddenly I'm 12 years old again, looking for a tennis ball among waisthigh perennials. That year — when Jim Laker took ...