Phlox subulata Candy Stripe Hummingbird Plants as roots must be spread

as roots must be spread horizontally just below the soil surface and not stuck deep in the ground as is the case with virtually all other plants

silvery blue-green

each should have a few short rhizomes

first saw this solidago on a flashlight walk one evening after giving a garden talk

If the hail occurs late in the summer

Phlox subulata Candy Stripe Hummingbird Plants as roots must be spreadPhlox subulata 'Candy Stripe', reportedly from the late Woodbank Nursery in Tasmania, is one of the best, most memorable selections of our US native phlox that I've ever seen. The soft, evergreen, needle like foliage of this durable, drought tolerant rock garden (high class) or ditchbank (lower class) groundcover is topped with round flowers, each carefully striped pink and white like a candy cane a real hummingbird treat. Although flowering is