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.

Dianthus are easy plants to care for and deadheading their ruffled and aromatic blooms during the summer months is one of the key maintenance tasks, as it will help grow more flowers. We take a close ...

The Perennial Plant Association has selected Dianthus gratianopolitanus Firewitch’ (Feuerhexe’) as its 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year. Also known as a cheddar pink, the perennial dianthus is an ...

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, ...

After you've propagated your dianthus, sit back and watch them bloom... Here is a selection of some of the prettiest pinks at specialist nursery Allwoods, in West Sussex. Credit: CLARA MOLDEN ...

Garden with various flowers, grass, and watering can - L Feddes/Getty Images Deciding to make the switch to a ground cover doesn't need to mean you want a boring, run-of-the-mill yard. Select one with ...

Bath’s Pink, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, like many dianthus species, is various shades of pink, however the name pink does not refer to the color, but the fringed flowers, which are “pinked.” That is, ...

Dianthus is a broad group of plants that includes carnations, pinks, sweet Williams and the numerous hybrids between them. They all share the common features of needing sunshine and free-draining soil ...

I have to admit that I have a soft spot for pinks, but they are hardly a flower associated with Christmas and the dark months of a British winter. But Pinks (Dianthus) whose stunning little flowers ...