Dianthus

An indispensable genus for the rock gardener, the genus has over 300 species to choose from. We tend to focus on the tight bun types although I have nothing against Carnations; indeed, I am surprised that no one has crossed the large flowered types with the buns. The cushions generally want full sun and good drainage, with perhaps a bit of lime in the soil, other than that they are carefree. Leggy older plants may benefit from the occasional shearing, a service our local bunnies provide from time to time.HARDY TO ZONE____4



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Dianthus 'Dragon Fruit'

Dianthus 'Dragon Fruit'

A double selection,,it produces fragrant, bright pink, ruffled flowers with magenta markings around the center and edge of the petals. The fluffy looking flowers which measure about 1.5" across are produced atop grassy mounds of grey-green foliage._____ZONE 4
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Dianthus 'Frosty Fire'

Dianthus 'Frosty Fire'

A walters introduction with excellent blue green foliage and deep red double flowers on compact scapes it looks to have grat-plumarius parentage, one of the best looking new dianthus we have seen in a while.
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Dianthus 'Mini Mound'

Dianthus 'Mini Mound'

So you don’t like big cups (actually you are not alone, Kinky gardeners prefer dark nipples, in fact they almost cleaned us out) but just in case there was something in the name that turned you off (mental images of sagging even if they are way up firm and high when young) we managed to find the perfect substitute in the Mt. Tahoma catalog. Tiny dense domes that wouldn’t even fill an ‘A’ cup, the perfect handful of gray foliage tastefully adorned with little pink things held firmly erect, flowers of course.
$8.00

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Dianthus 'Mountain Mist'

Dianthus 'Mountain Mist'

Pierre from Sunny Border sent us a box of goodies this fall and this was among them, a neat plumarius type with low mounds of blue green foliage and semi double laciniated pink flowers on relatively long stems.
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Dianthus allwoodii alpinus

Dianthus allwoodii alpinus

The Allwood brothers ran a legendary Dianthus nursery in the UK for many years, and wrote a classic monograph of the genus. This fragrant large flowered strain lives on as perhaps their finest achievement._____ZONE 4
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Dianthus alpinus

Dianthus alpinus

One of the choicest alpine pinks large rose flowers on 3-8cm stems over small soft cushions of dark green leaves_____ZONE 4
$8.00

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Dianthus arpadianus ssp pumilus

Dianthus arpadianus ssp pumilus

A rare and beautiful plant, forming densely pulvinate cushions, bearing solitary pink flowers on 1-4cm scapes, Mojmir Pavelka found this on the rocky slopes of Kaz Dag at 1,600m. This ranks as one of the very tightest Dianthus we have ever grown with neat domes of fine textured foliage.
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Dianthus boissieri

Dianthus boissieri

A cushion to mat former boissieri has been lumped into sylvestris in recent years, whatever the name the plants are the same.
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Dianthus deltoides 'Arctic Fire'

Dianthus deltoides 'Arctic Fire'

The best of the white deltiodes cultivars, the spreading low mats make a good grass substitute for lawns, mow once a year after flowering.
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Dianthus erinaceus

Dianthus erinaceus

Rick Lupp’s clone of this rare Kaz Dagh endemic; compact spiny mounds, pink flowers sit right on the cushion, one of the tightest species, it resents being too wet in winter.
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