Plant FinderFind your perfect plant match here. Browse our selection of perennials, shrubs, trees, evergreens, annuals, vegetables, fruits, succulents and houseplants. Find plants you like and save them to your Wish List. Next, bring your wish list into the store by printing it or saving it to your device. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff will help find everything you need. Please note: Not all plants are available at all times. The plants shown here are those that we expect to carry this season. Happy Browsing and we'll see you soon!  Paint The Town Fancy Pinks Dianthus 'Paint The Town Fancy' Plant Height: 6 inches Flower Height: 8 inches Spacing: 14 inches
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 4 Other Names: Border Pinks, Cheddar Pinks Group/Class: Paint The Town Series Brand: Proven Winners Description: Breathtaking flowers are rosy fuchsia with red centers, above low mounds of glaucous blue foliage; great for flower arrangements; deadhead to rebloom; pair up with summer blooming perennials and annuals to time a continued flower display Ornamental Features Paint The Town Fancy Pinks is smothered in stunning fragrant rose frilly flowers with fuchsia overtones and red centers at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive narrow leaves remain powder blue in colour with hints of grayish green throughout the year. Landscape Attributes Paint The Town Fancy Pinks is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics. Paint The Town Fancy Pinks is recommended for the following landscape applications;
Planting & Growing Paint The Town Fancy Pinks will grow to be only 6 inches tall at maturity extending to 8 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 16 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 14 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial, this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round. This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation. Paint The Town Fancy Pinks is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden. Be aware that in our climate, most plants cannot be expected to survive the winter if left in containers outdoors, and this plant is no exception. Contact our experts for more information on how to protect it over the winter months. 
Characteristics
Applications
Ornamental Features
|
8845 Aquarius Road
Prince George, BC V2K 5K1 phone: 250-967-4325 email: [email protected] web: www.hunnifordgardens.com |
