Phlox Subulata, Emerald Blue Creeping, Lavender-Blue, 1 Gallon Pot

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Plant Description

Plant a dazzling carpet of color! Beautiful masses of deep blue flowers top creeping stems and create an attractive groundcover or accent in a rock garden. Excellent bank cover. More heat tolerant than garden phlox. An herbaceous perennial.

Plant type: Groundcover, Perennial

Deciduous/evergreen: Herbaceous

Growth habit: Mounding, Spreading

Growth rate: Moderate

Average landscape size: Moderate growing; reaches 6 in. tall, forming a dense mat up to 3 ft. wide.Special features:Attracts Butterflies, North American Native Selection, Pet Friendly, Tolerates Urban Pollution, Waterwise

Foliage color: Green

Blooms: Spring into Summer

Flower color:Blue

Flower attributes:Flowers for Cutting, Showy Flowers

Garden style: Cottage, Rustic

Design Ideas: It's rare to find such a vigorous source of blue in a ground-hugging plant for rock gardens. A notorious dweller on edges of rocky embankments, where it spreads over curbs and short retaining walls, or amidst rocky outcroppings. And ideal cover plant for difficult edges of dry stream beds or rock waterfalls. Enjoys the fast drainage of elevated spots and thrives in the nooks and crannies of dry stone retaining walls. It is equally at home in the front of a traditional flower border or planted along the edges of flagstone walkways.

Companion Plants: Candytuft (Iberis); Thrift (Dianthus); Daylily (Hemerocallis); Beardtongue (Penstemon); Hosta (Hosta)