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Creeping Phlox

Creeping Phlox
Mat forming habit with masses of large, deep pink flowers with deep green,
narrow leaved foliage. A beautifully vibrant groundcover that will bring
excitement to the shady or woodland garden. Floriferous and highly fragrant.

Creeping phlox
A spreading, mossy evergreen perennial, blooming extravagantly in spring. This variety tolerates sun well, remaining green throughout the summer and fall. Photo May, 2001, one year old.
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( Creeping Phlox )
Phlox adsurgens is a prostrate, stem-rooting, semi-evergreen perennial with stalkless, rounded, light to medium green leaves.

A dense, vigorous, mat-forming ground cover, creeping phlox has short flower stems from 3 to 12 inches tall. The flowers can be pale lavender-blue, rose-pink, medium violet, or white, with unnotched petals and a yellow center.

Creeping Phlox
Creeping Phlox (Phlox Reptans) - This is a beautiful little plant, sending up numbers of stems from 4 to 6 inches at the end of April or beginning of May, ...

Creeping Phlox
(Phlox subulata)
Tiny needlelike, evergreen foliage is covered by pink, rose, lavender or white flowers in early spring.
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How to Grow Creeping Phlox Plant Profile
Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.
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Phlox subulata--Creeping Phlox, Moss Phlox
PHLOX INSECTS
PHLOX DISEASES ...

Emerald Blue Creeping Phlox [English]: Phlox subulata 'Emerald Blue'
Emerald Brooch Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Emerald Brooch'
Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry [English]: Rubus calycinoides 'Emerald Carpet' ...

There are several types, the most common of which are spring-blooming creeping phlox and summer-blooming tall phlox.
About This Plant
There is a type of phlox suitable for almost any garden situation.

Pink Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata 'Emerald Pink')
Pink Diosma (Coleonema pulchrum 'Sunset Gold')
Pink Fleece Flower (Polygonum capitatum)
Pink Flowering Almond (Prunus glandulosa 'Rosea')
Pink Flowering Almond (Prunus glandulosa) ...

Although the various groups of tulips make distinctive displays in themselves, they are even more pleasing when combined with such spring-flowering ground covers as creeping phlox, golden-tuft alyssum, arabis and a host of other rock plants.

It is ideally suited for planting in groundcover beds, in the rock garden or amongst spring blooming plants such as creeping phlox or dianthus. The foliage will persist through the winter and die down during the spring.

Phlox stolonifera 'Home Fires' creeping phlox
perennial, average care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 2a thru 8b ...

Common name: Moss Pink, Moss Phlox, Creeping Phlox
Design Characteristics
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Choose a front-row position for shorter varieties (up to 60 centimetres) and mid-border for the taller torches, and plant low sun-loving perennials such as candytuft, catmint, creeping phlox, lavender or dwarf geraniums in front.

Phlox subulata (Creeping Phlox)
Podophyllum sp. (Mayapple)
Polystichum sp. (Shield Fern)
Pteris sp. (Table Fern)
Pulmonaria sp. and hybrids (Lungwort)
Punica granatum (Pomegranate)
Pycnanthemum sp. (Mountain Mint)
Ranunculus sp. (Buttercup) ...