One of the new plants added to my front sunny garden border is Phlox 'Blue Ridge'. It's one of those plants that catches your eye from a distance by the colour of its flowers, a bright mauve (pink-blue). What I also liked about it is that it has a carpeting habit with the flowers held aloft on a long stem. It's really pretty. The photograph doesn't quite do it justice as the poor thing had suffered from frost, hail and snow before I could get to plant it. Just shows though what a little toughie it is.
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| Phlox 'Blue Ridge' |
The label says: Phlox 'Blue Ridge' has clear blue flower heads above evergreen spread mats of green oval foliage. It is suitable for border edges, rockeries, paving, walls, banks, gravel gardens, and containers in sun on well-drained soil. It flowers from mid spring to early summer.
The label is misleading, however, as the flowers are not a true blue but a pink-blue.
