Cottage Pink Seeds - Spring Beauty

BOTANICAL NAME

Dianthus plumarius

LIFE CYCLE

• Perennial

LIGHT REQUIREMENT

• Full Sun

GROWTH HABIT

• Mounding

PLANT HEIGHT

• 12 inches

COLOR

• Mixed

Old-fashioned English "cottage pinks" or "grass pinks" Dianthus is the perfect flower for container planting and cut flowers. Grown in a branching format in shades of pinks, reds and whites, Dianthus Spring Beauty provides several blooms per stem. Fringed, double and semi-double blooms are wonderfully fragrant with notes of clove and pepper. Be sure to plant Spring Beauty in the front of borders, as an edging flower, or in containers.

• Makes a wonderful flowering groundcover
• Pollinator attractor
• Deadhead spend blossoms to encourage more blooms

PLANTING SEASON

• Spring

SOWING METHOD

• Direct Sow
• Start Indoors

PLANTING DEPTH

• 1/8 inch

WATER NEEDS

• Average

PLANT SPACING

• 12 inches

HARDINESS ZONES

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
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• 9