Phlox paniculata 'Border Gem'

Family - Polemoniaceae
Category - Perennial
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H7
Height - up to 1.2m
Width - 40cm
Location - The Terrace

Description: A herbaceous Perennial with a clump-forming habit and upright stems. Bright to mid-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate in shape. Scented, salverform flowers are a vivid shade of magenta purple. The Blooms are held in dense, roundish panicles atop the upright stems and are produced from mid to late summer. Excellent for use as cut flowers.

Flower:

Scented, salverform flowers are a vivid shade of magenta-purple. The blooms are held in dense, slightly rounded panicles atop the tall upright stems and are produced in July and August.

Flower colour: Purple

Flower shape: Salverform flowers held in panicles

Flowering time: July, August

Foliage:

Bright, mid-green lanceolate to ovate leaves are held in opposite pairs up the vertical stems.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Lanceolate to ovate

Propagation:

Cuttings, division.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moisture-retentive soil that is well-drained.