Beautiful!

I only have one, too, love it. We’re renting a house, so I did much smaller beds than I’d normally do. “Texas Pink” (paniculata). Wonderful scent.

ETA: Right after I took the pics, a hummer was on it. :)

My phlox subulata is still blooming. I think this one will need dividing:

BLUE PARADISE:

I cannot resist phlox, a favorite since childhood and my mother's gardens. I have let them do their own thing over the years. Some older ones are just shy of 5 ft tall right now, tho not in bloom yet. Other more modern ones are shorter and blooming now.

In the past, my phlox have suffered greatly from mildew. Last year, I started spraying the leaves with a 1:9 mix of water (9)and skim milk (1). Top and undersides. It has worked amazingly well to cure already begun mildew, and tomorrow I am going to treat all of the phlox as a preventative (only three have small mildew spots so far).

I'm not really a big fan of white flowers (I guess it has something to do with my very long winters) ... though, 'Fashionably Early Lavender Ice' is a beauty!

I'm really not a big fan of mauve, lol ... but, 'Fashionably Early Flamingo' is also a keeper! Photography does not do these plants justice, they're gorgeous specimens in person!

I started with a dozen cultivars and now I'm down to only one -- David's Lavender. The rest got defeated by powdery mildew. David is marketed as reliable and somewhat resistant to PM, and it's definitely true in my garden. I can't wait to divide it! (It looks more lavender in person...)

I also can’t resist phlox. Unfortunately it’s one of those plants I struggle with! I know they would probably appreciate some better soil and more consistent moisture but this is what they’re stuck with lol

powdery mildew is rarely a problem for me, but this year even with some steady rains and plenty of attention they have been fighting spider mites all year. Usually a blast of water and some liquid fertilizer is enough to blast them back to tolerable levels but this year I can’t seem to make a dent in their numbers.

Love the pictures. I’ll see if any of mine have recovered enough from the rain to be photo ready.

Mine are slowing coming into bloom...

Various pinks with coneflower

Tall noid phlox...very fragrant

I think this is our "Little Red Riding Hood":

"Cleopatra"

Snapped these tonight..

driveway bed

Reseeded Cleome (like crazy) with phlox

Side path

This one has become my favorite, it’s so fragrant...love it!

Today: 'Peppermint Twist' and how I like my Canada geese (wooden and sporting mandevilla).

Sunny is your peppermint twist new?

Mine all reverted :(

Mine also reverted -- all three plants were magenta the following summer. (And then PM finished them off... ) Do they stay bi-color for anybody?

GardenHo, not new. I bought five 'Peppermint Twist' plants for our garden in (it seems) 2009 and bought none thereafter. Currently, maybe up to 1/4 of the overall 'Peppermint Twist' has reverted (to the parent 'Candy Floss'). I don't think I discarded any reverted parts when dividing the plants, though I moved one reverted section to the front garden .

Interested to read of your own and Festiva Maxima's experience. Wondering why the difference.

I find 'Peppermint Twist' to be one of our more vigorous garden phlox. Powdery mildew certainly weakens phlox but we see very little of it in our garden.

GardenHo. do you have a name for the phlox shown in your last photo, it sure is a beauty :)

Unfortunately I don’t sorry.

It is a division from my mother’s yard (previous owners).

Thanks for getting back to me, maybe someone might chime in as to what variety you have there.

Never very comfortable about No Names myself, but sometimes the plants prove themselves over time; likely why so many of them are still around. So it becomes difficult to remain diffident about them. Realize, of course, that such name niceties reflect not just personal taste, but also personality (of the gardener).

In the picture below (last Saturday), the pink garden phlox behind the 'Twister' and the 'Pina Colada', with Nicky at the end, is one of two such garden phlox in our garden. It came from a plant sale of the local horticultural society at least ten years ago.

Actually, this phlox has so many great features, it has now been awarded a name (by me that is). In our garden, it's identified as My Pink.

Sunny that is a Gorgeous Color!

Thanks, GardenHo.

Like My Pink, I mean Your Pink, too!

Im now realizing it is Nicky that I was referring to lol. The others are pretty but it’s Nicky that looks so rich and caught my eye. I was imagining how nice it might complement some of the hydrangeas I planted recently.

There goes ‘Perception’ along with distance, as to my eye, it seems to have calmed her bold color....

Never very comfortable about No Names myself, but sometimes the plants prove themselves over time

The white flowered NOID you gave me 'sunny' is the brightest white I have seen for a Phlox.

Got that one from the local horticultural society spring sale too, Rouge. That was a great place to get perennials to start our garden here. Still, as David T. warned me, such sales are also a great place to know what not to buy (viz. perennials that will soon run amok).

I was looking around the garden this evening and realized I must kill a lot of phlox... I have quite a few, but many of the named ones have disappeared due to one thing or another.

Here are two which don’t look too bad. ‘Blushing shortwood’ is a favorite.

‘starry skies’ (sternhimmel) is new this year and still settling in (I hope)

I tried a few of the ‘Sweet Summer’ series and this one is the only one that survived... ‘SSFestival’ I think, and the flowers won’t open and it looks terrible.

There are a few seedling phlox which seem much happier to be here. Maybe they just don’t know any better or just aren’t spending every day wishing they were back at the nursery lol

a tall one, similar to ‘Laura’

A medium height white.

Various pinks

A warmer pink with darker eye

A tall white. Nothing special

Some hot pinks and one more towards purple

One last favorite :)

No ID, any guesses?

Very pretty, Catkin, but no idea.

Myself, have to accept an occasional name that gets away!

Images Aug. 2 and 3:

Main ones, 'Glamour Girl', 'Bright Eyes', reversions back to 'Candy Floss',

'Peppermint Twist' and Flame Purple.

Main ones, 'Pink Lady' and 'Watermelon Punch'.

The culver's root in front is still full of honey bees, but I've never noticed a bee on any of our garden phlox before. Butterflies, humming birds and small flies (latter apparently not effective pollinators), yes, but no bees. Bumble bees, however, are listed among wild phlox pollinators. This bee was crashing around among the flowers of our older pink phlox (My Pink); perhaps due to its damaged left wing.

Those are fantastic photos! What a setting. I really like the flowers on Pink Lady, might have to keep my eyes open for that one.

I don't always get so excited about seeing the bumblebees on my phlox. Their tongues are too short for the flowers so instead they 'nectar rob' by biting a hole in the base of the tube and then drinking from there. You'll notice the bee in your last photo is feeding from the base of the flower, and this sometimes causes the flower to wilt and drop before its time.

Thanks, Katob, that explains the bumblebee observation. Was a different bee (not as clumsy though) of the same sort on the same phlox yesterday.

Does anyone have any phlox thriving in less than ideal spots in the garden? I love phlox but can only supply part sun / part shade. In those difficult conditions I’ve had good experience with flame lilac, flame blue, and peacock white so far. Blue paradise and red Caribbean definitely struggle in less than full sun. Katherine is struggling this year, but I’ll give her one more summer as this is her first in the garden and a more robust root system could help both with the flopping and with the mildew she’s experienced this summer (plus I love the color and fragrance).

Garden phlox tend to get sunny locations in our garden.

Today:

Here‘s a few blooming in my garden today.

The red is Miss Mary. I like that it is a shorter variety.

This is a dwarf variety called Flame Blue. It isn’t very blue, but still pretty. The blooms are large for such a small plant.

Very interesting, north53.

Planted two Flame Blue (I'm pretty sure) this year and they're (re)blooming white.

Also still have a small Flame Blue in the original pot: Some of the individual flowers are sizeably white. This includes new blooms, with the white extending from the centre of the flower.

Planted a number of Flame Violet last year and this; no problem with that colour of Flame at all.

I was pleased to find a new one today called ‘fashionably early lavender ice’ at the farmers market. I’ve been wanting a white phlox after getting rid of my most of my floppy David’s. This one is white (described as a pale lavender) with a lavender eye. Said to bloom 2-3 weeks earlier than most phlox, just under 3ft and highly mildew resistant. Looks similar to Norths flame blue above.

stock photo

Here is mine in my pot ghetto. I see no lavender, although others might.

Great to find a new phlox. Apparently 'Fashionably Early Lavender Ice' is a hybrid Phlox (P. paniculata Coral Flame x P. carolina 'Minnie Pearl').

For similarity to 'Minnie Pearl': below: And at top of thread; probable heritage reassigned on the basis of DNA evidence.

https://www.plantdelights.com/products/phlox-carolina-minnie-pearl-white-garden-phlox-plants

Re Phlox paniculata 'Jeana' (wild collected cultivar):

Think I'm seeing the first hints that it's spreading itself around our back garden; especially not helpful because it's now at the front of a bed and it attains it's maximum height (up to 4 foot) here.

Seems it can also form clumps more quickly and more densely than typical of garden phlox (at least here).

As to attracting butterflies; no more a butterfly magnet than others of our garden phlox. In fact, haven't seen a butterfly on it. Maybe depends on type of butterfly.

Gorgeous Phlox everyone!

Fancy Feelins' - really like the dark buds on this one.

Fancy Feelins'

Mt. Fuji

Orange Perfection reverted (pale pink) and now some hot pink but the scent was outstanding so it got to stay.

Very pretty, peren.all.

We have only one 'Orange Perfection'. Late blooming; had it for years but not very vigorous for us (it's location?).

Suspecting that your pale pink are seedlings that have replaced the original plant. Have pictures of a 'White Admiral' garden phlox which we once had and which appeared to itself revert to light magenta pink. Was long inclined to suspect direct reversion, but now have to agree with the usual explanation; namely that seedlings (themselves reverting back to the wild Phlox paniculata flower colour and which are much more vigorous than cultivars) replaced the original cultivar.

All your phlox are beautiful. I also love phlox. I have a pink one (don't know the name) & just noticed today a few leaves have mildew. If it persist, I will try roxanna7's recipe. I have 'Nicky' & no mildew - at least not yet. Yesterday, I purchased 'Early Cerise'. Apparently that's a new one. Can't see the colour yet - has a few buds - will have to wait. Does anyone have that one? Apparently it has great colour selection & remarkable compact habit. Also has good mildew resistance. Sounds good to me - but I like all phlox!

Don't have 'Early Cerise' but planted a number of different Early Start Series cultivars in our garden several years ago. Their survival rate has been far below that of our Cocktail and Flame Series phlox.

Do like the sound of cerise; like our Younique Series Cerise (below: yesterday).

So many beautiful phloxes! I have only one. I got mine in a plant swap in 1999. It was October, the plant still had blooms, and not a leaf damaged by mildew. In the almost 20 years I’ve had it, it never had a spot of mildew. Height 4’-6’, spicy evening fragrance.

Rouge, is your ‘Blue Paradise’ especially fragrant?

I would love to get my greedy fingers on ‘Old Cellar Hole’, but I don’t think it is available in Canada. Does anyone have it?

It is fragrant gdinie (just not sure if it is "especially" ;)).

Here is SHOCKWAVE today: