Dianthus are easy plants to care for and deadheading their ruffled and aromatic blooms during the summer months is one of the key maintenance tasks, as it will help grow more flowers. We take a close ...

Even though outside temperatures are still quite balmy, we are moving into winter. Maybe this year we will actually have a winter. That makes now the perfect time to start planting dianthus. In fact, ...

These plants are winter hardy, and many provide color from fall to late spring or early summer next year. An excellent choice for your cool-season flower beds is the Amazon dianthus series -- one of ...

Jane explores the diversity of dianthus. Dianthus are a favourite for cottage gardens. They're often called carnations, clove pinks or just pinks, because they look like someone's used pinking shears ...

This past weekend I was in church and one of my pastor friends asked me an interesting question about mini roses. One of the characteristics of carnations is some of them look a lot like roses. He ...

The Perennial Plant Association has selected Dianthus gratianopolitanus Firewitch’ (Feuerhexe’) as its 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year. Also known as a cheddar pink, the perennial dianthus is an ...

The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the edge than the flower’s base colour) margins It’s the flower with the frilly ...

In the last 10 years, tremendous breeding innovation has produced several new varieties of Dianthus, a low-growing plant distinguished by fragrant flowers and grassy, blue-green foliage. Commonly ...