4 Comments

1. 

   GirlGoneGardening on May 3, 2007 at 12:17 am

   mmmm pretty.

   I try so hard to get dianthas to over winter here (zone 5) but the plants look AWEFUL come spring and never really take off if they survive…roughly 60% of my supposedly ‘hardy dianthus’ bit the dust this winter and I am considering pulling up the rest as they look bad. So I will envy yours and enjoy them from a distance.

2. 

   Sylvana on May 3, 2007 at 12:52 pm

   Dianthus doesn’t over winter well for me either.

   Love your pictures and that you stamped them.

3. 

   Angela on May 3, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   You know what? I’ve never grown this “mini carnation” type of Dianthus because I’d heard they were difficult, but man, there’s no stopping them! I think I got lucky with the right spot in the yard. Now I wish I hadn’t avoided them all these years.

   I will try to track down the cultivar name because I suspect it’s a newer, tougher cultivar we might want to grow more of, more often. My tag-in-a-bag system has sort of disintegrated into a tags-all-over-the-house system, but I’m trying to get back on track. Need to start a new bag for 2007.

4. 

   Angela on May 11, 2007 at 2:02 pm

   Found the tag! The dianthus is ‘Devon Cottage Rosie Cheeks’ from Proven Selections (Proven Winners).