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Plant details
This North American native makes a great show in the early and midsummer border, especially in colourful cottage gardens, with erect, packed spikes of gently scented, lilac-mauve flowers with a dark eye above the dark green leaves. It's often grown with the white 'Omega' which has a pink eye. Try and grow it in several smallish clumps to avoid having one large, bare gap when it stops flowering at the end of summer, possibly surrounding it with dahlias which come into flower as the phlox dies down. Keep deadheading the phlox, and cut it back in the autumn.
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Phlox
Species: maculata
Cultivar: Alpha
Plant type: Hardy perennial
Flower colour: Lilac
Foliage colour: Mid-green
Feature: Flowers
Sun exposure: Full sun, Partial shade
Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Moist
Hardiness: Hardy
Skill level: Beginner
Height: 90cm
Spread: 45cm
Time to take cuttings: March to April
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