A veteran flower grower should undertake growing a perennial flower that offers a challenge. A good test plant is to grow a few tall garden phlox. Their large flowers offer strong color appeal. Most ...

Prime Day Deals: Shop sales in tech, home, fashion, beauty & more curated by our editors. Phlox was some of the first North American native plants discovered and cultivated by European naturalists, ...

Tall garden phlox (Phlox paniculata) is a must have for any good pollinator garden. It is one of my favorite pollinator plants, my family says I claim each of my plants are my favorites. This is a ...

Phlox paniculata, commonly known as garden phlox, is a native perennial that grows wild in woodlands and open fields and on cliffs. Its many cultivars are favorites for the home garden in a perennial ...

More than beauty brings me to perennial phlox. I’m speaking of the pollinators which are attracted to the tall bosomy flower panicles: all kinds of bees, the imposture hummingbird moths and ...

Pink creeping phlox growing on a slope and around a large rock - Olena Lialina/Getty Images The spring blooms of creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) are a welcome sight after a long winter. Whether you ...

Phlox, (sounds like “flocks”) originating mostly in North America, belongs to a genus of about 70 species that are known as the “backbone” of the perennial border, adding color and fragrance to the ...

Phlox paniculata is a wonderful perennial plant to have in the garden. Phlox paniculata, sometimes referred to as “garden phlox” or “summer phlox,” is native to North America. From the turn of the ...

Readers sent me on a wildflower hunt for one last look at colorful patches of phlox before the bloom fades in a few weeks. Connie Carol steered me north into Marion County where she found “almost a ...

Every day as I walk to my office I pass a beautiful patch of garden phlox, standing so tall and flooding the area with their enticing fragrance. It is this experience that always leads me to challenge ...

Phlox are easy-to-grow plants that come in a huge variety of colors to provide a bounty of fragrant flowers throughout the summer months. They require only a little annual maintenance to perform at ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Each spring as the Ohio woodlands wake up to new ...