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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

I’M PRETTY SURE I became a gardener so I could pick flowers with impunity. Once, on the way to school in the second grade, I gathered a small posy of pinks for my teacher. Rather than graciously ...