A colorful herald of spring
The upholstery phlox blooms relatively persistently in most locations between May and June. However, spring is also the best time for planting new specimens of this plant in the garden. In these young plants, it can be due to the irritation caused by the Transplanting naturally there is also the fact that the flowering fails in the usual abundance of flowers only in the second year of standing. In the case of the upholstery phlox, a combination of different colored flowering cultivars is attractive, after all there are numerous cultivars with the following flower colors:
- White
- Red
- white-pink striped
- pink
- scarlet
- white with blue eye
Even more abundance of flowers through a targeted cut
Under certain circumstances, the upholstery phlox can also flower after the actual flowering period. To do this, you should cut back by about a third of the plant height immediately after the flowering period in spring.
Tips
If you do not want to do without the delicate phlox flowers later in the year, then you can also use higher-growing phlox varieties such as the meadow phlox in addition to the upholstered phlox.
phlox or cultivate the tall summer phlox.