A summer garden mainstay for centuries, phlox owes its on-going popularity to its clouds of billowy blooms, easy-care and stately stature. The dainty five-petaled flowers of phlox, available in a wide array of colors from white, red, and lavender to salmon, purple and nearly every shade of pink, is derived from the Greek word for flame. The blooms are packed by the dozens into dense clusters and often have a sweet vanilla-clove fragrance. They establish quickly with full sun and adding just a few phlox will add major color to your landscaping as they are available in a wide variety of colors. The typical bloom period for phlox is late spring through fall and the pollinators love their flowers.
Although phlox flowers best when given full sun, typically around 6 hours per day, it is actually a native woodland plant and doesn’t mind a bit of shade, especially when grown in the warm Central Texas climate. Phlox prefers moist, fertile, well-drained soil enriched with compost or other organic matter as well as soil that’s slightly alkaline. Though it does well in all types of soil, regular applications of lime if your soil tends to be acidic will help the performance of it. Properly planted, phlox are largely pest and disease free and will provide decades of effortless blooms.
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