Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pink dianthus flower Dianthus are easy plants to care for and deadheading their ruffled and aromatic blooms during the summer ...

Pink is an easy colour to use in perennial borders and rock gardens and the genus Dianthus provides for plenty of pinks. Flowers may be single, semi-double or double; single forms have five petals.

Stepping outside to a burst of sweet, spicy fragrance mixed with delicate, fringed petals in shades of pink and rose is a wonderful experience on any patio or balcony. Dianthus gratianopolitanus, also ...

Along the front of a small, curving border, dianthus "Firewitch" bloomed profusely throughout spring into early summer. Deep pink-violet blooms were so vivid against green foliage that the plants ...

Something special is growing in my garden, an unexpected treasure. I love seed packets for their retro beauty, so I'm often extracting the seeds (without damaging the package) and planting them in my ...

Long-lived, gloriously colourful, richly scented dianthus are a joy. The only problem is they are almost too pretty It all began with a Sunday afternoon trip to Special Plants in Wiltshire. Being ...

GARDEN pinks, like carnations and sweet williams, belong to the dianthus family. Dianthus means flower of the gods, derived from dios (god) and anthos (flower). Favourites of artists for centuries, ...

Last summer the star plant in my gravel garden was the Carthusian pink, Dianthus carthusianorum. It provided a splash of bright magenta from June until September, producing a succession of slender ...