Creeping Phlox

[renaldo75]

The creeping phlox always blooms at the same time as the tulips & they compliment each other nicely I think.

[renaldo75]

A few more.

[Nathalie23]

This is so beautiful. I live too in zone 4 but you are so in advance compared with me. The snow just finish to melt here.

[renaldo75]

Thanks, Nathalie. I think we are really in Zone 5 - but it can get very cold here so that's why we are Z4b. We haven't had any snow for well over a month - probly closer to 2 months & then it only lasted a few days.

[Annie]

I love creeping phlox.
Yours is soooooooo pretty!
For some reason I CANNOT get the stuff to stay alive for me

[Justaysam]

Your front beds are gorgeous! Take a wider shot and post, I bet it is really something. I like the stone steps.

[renaldo75]

Thanks, ladies!!

Annie - I don't know why you'd have a problem getting them to take hold. I planted these in the fall of 2002, and I've never done anything special. Just put them in the ground & let them be. Some years you can have some winter kill on parts of them since the foliage doesn't die back & is 'out there' year round. I had a little bit of that this year, but just on a few plants. A lady who has a little greenhouse business near here told me once after a hard winter that only her blue [light bluish-lavender] creeping phlox had survived. But I've got a patchwork quilt of colors & haven't had a problem yet. A couple years ago I found some smaller plants of some newer varieties - peach w/a burgundy eye & white w/a burgundy eye that I tucked in between the others. So far they are doing fine too but don't seem to be spreading quite as much as the solid colors.

Linda, those aren't steps - they're part of the retaining wall as it graduates down to the ground at the west end of the wall. I actually garden in the neighbor's yard as well as mine [with permission]. The son of the people who were our neighbors owns it now since they passed away. The house is for sale, but is rented out. I asked him if he cared if I gardened along the front of the yard to the end of the retaining wall & he was fine with it. I think it looks so much er that way instead of my garden being trapped between 2 lawns. And I already had all those tulips and perennials.

I took some wider views the other day.

[newtohosta-no more]

Wow! Absolutely gorgeous! I have one area planted with creeping phlox and it as done well in past years, but for some reason half of it died this year? Not sure why. What's left is pretty, but I hated seeing half of it gone. Maybe I'll replace it with another color.

[renaldo75]

There is one spot that you can see in that 3rd pic at the end of the bed where one plant died over winter. I have some more I'm holding in another spot. I'm thinking a nice wine-colored one will look good there.

[Dusty]

Very nice garden Renaldo! I love Phlox... Creeping and tall! Your house is a beaut also! Keep up the good work!

[DryGulch]

With creeping phlox, I think the secret to planting, transplantin, dividing, etc. is to do it during the cool parts of the year. It seems to take better for me at in the early spring and as soon as it cools in the fall/late summer.

If moving it in the fall, I would cover it the first winter with a little straw or mulch.

[DryGulch]

With creeping phlox, I think the secret to planting, transplantin, dividing, etc. is to do it during the cool parts of the year. It seems to take better for me at in the early spring and as soon as it cools in the fall/late summer.

If moving it in the fall, I would cover it the first winter with a little straw or mulch.

[Gruntfuttock]

I live in a warmer climate than you and mine are nowhere near showing signs of flowering yet, and my tulips are only just showing buds.

[Justaysam]

Great pics of the whole lot! Thanks. Did you build that wall? Looks great also. Nice people next door, I may and try to talk the people next door into letting me expand some day.