Plant Database - Perennials
Sweet William
(Dianthus barbatus)
Multiple forms of differing flower colors ...
Wild Sweet William
A delightful spring blooming native for shade, it carpets the shady border with pale blue. A low growing carpet of fragrant blooms with burgundy winter foliage makes this sweet william most appealing.
Sweet William catchfly's vivid dark pink flower clusters beautify the garden in late summer. It is a herbaceous perennial most often grown as an annual, as it readily propagates from seed.
Sweet William varieties include perennials and biennials. The perennials are often grown as annuals. Plants grow 7-18 inches tall, depending upon variety. Flowers blooms are produced in clusters in the spring.
Wild Sweet William is best in partial shade, but like most part shade plants, will grow in the sun if it gets some water in the summer.
Sweet Williams, vivid and summer-flowering, are also part of the Dianthus family. Dwarf or taller-growing varieties all bear dense clusters of brilliantly colored blooms on stout stems.
Sweet William. Known in Scotland as Stinking Willie.
Tabebuia chrysantha. Golden Goddess. Not common. One was planted in Bermuda Perfumery Gardens.
Sweet William is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans, with a variety disjunct in northeastern China, Korea, ...
Sweet William (D. barbatus) is distinguished from other pinks by its compact heads of tightly clustered, phlox-like flowers on stiff stems to 70 centimetres tall.
Sweet William Old-Fashioned Favorite in Gardens
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) is a very popular garden ornamental in colors ranging from burgundy, purple, red, pink, white or variegated.
How to Choose, Plant and Care for Hydrangeas ...
SWEET WILLIAMS Usually sown in May in a nice seed bed and then pricked out 225 mm (9 in) square in the reserve plot. The plants are then put out in their flowering beds in the autumn or early spring. They are in flower in May and early June.
Sweet William Dianthus - The Pinks
Early Summer - Time To Start Perennials
Mexican Tigerflowers - Tigridia Pavonia
Putting Geraniums to Work Outdoors ...
See Sweet William
Dianthus Cal-Alpinus
Dianthus Cal-Alpinus - A hybrid of D. callizonus and D. alpinus, and one of the best of the dwarf alpine set. The handsome flowers are of rosy crimson with a darker central zone.
"Sooty" Sweet William;
or, Black Dianthus
The salability of black flowers causes a lot of "fudging" on the part of marketeers, so that a deep burgundy or maroon dianthus gets marketed as black.
Description:
Sweet William, a self-sowing biennial that often displays dense clusters of richly bicolored inflorescences above the plant, superficially has flowers that resemble Mountain Laurel, an acid-soil requiring shrub.
Silene armeria sweet William catchfly
annual, easy care
created by ladybug
zones: 4a thru 8b ...
Silene armeria ( Sweet William Catchfly )
Silene californica ( California Indian Pink )
Silene caroliniana ( Carolina Campion ) ...
Dianthus Barbatus
Sweet William
Wild Sweet William
Biennial
Habitat: Full sun, dry, well-drained soil. Surface sow to no more than 1/8". Attracts Butterflies or Hummingbirds.
Carnations, Pinks, Sweet Williams, Dianthus sp.
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Carolina Jessamine, Gelsemium sempervirens ...
Common dianthus include Sweet William, pinks, and carnations.
About This Plant
Most dianthus have pink, red, or white flowers with notched petals. Sweet Williams are biennial or short-lived perennials covered with bicolor flowers in late spring.
Ornamental pinks include the spicily fragrant flowers of the large genus Dianthus, an Old World group including the carnation (D. caryophyllus), sweet William (D. barbatus), Deptford pink (D. armeria), ...
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus 'Indian Carpet')
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus 'Newport Pink')
Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) ...
Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William)
Dianthus caryophyllus (Carnation, Clove Pink)
Dianthus chinensis (Chinese Pink, Rainbow Pink)
Dianthus deltoides (Maiden Pink)
Dianthus gratianopolitanus (Cheddar Pink)
Dianthus plumarius (Cottage Pink) ...
Synonyms and Common names: Bouncing bet, sweet betty, wild sweet william, bruisewort, dog cloves, old maids' pink, soap root, latherwort, fuller's herb, fuller's grass, foam dock, gill-run-by-the-street saponary, lady-by-the-gate, crow soap, ...
Dianthus (pink, sweet William, carnation) A/Bi/P: range of colours, fragrant
Helianthus annus (sunflower) A: yellow to brown
Echinops (globe thistle) P: blue flowers ...
Some of the better known biennials are Sweet Williams (Dianthus barbatus), Foxgloves ( Digitalis purpurea) and Canterbury bells ( Campanula medium).
Common biennials include: Foxglove (Digitalis), Money Plant (Lunaria), Lupines, sweet williams (Dianthus), Canterbury bells, hollyhocks, leeks (Allium), parsley, and cabbage.
(revised 2-94) ...
Plant seed in late summer or early fall for spring bloom.
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)*
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
Wallflower (Erysimum species) ...
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Sweet William'
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Tappan Zee'
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Templar Gold'
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Tequila Sunrise'
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'The Green Hornet'
Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Tic Tac' ...
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
Sweet bay, bay (Laurus nobilis)
Sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
Sweet clover (Melilotus species)
Sweet elder, European elder (Sambucus canadensis, Sambucus nigra, Sambucus racemosa) ...
 See also: Pink, Green, Dianthus, May, Varieties
  
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