Dianthus plumarius seed

LATIN NAME: Dianthus plumarius

COMMON NAME: Garden Pink

The garden pink is a handsome, low, tufted, evergreen perennial herb of the gardens, and its fine, narrow, grey-green leaves and its upright stems of the many fringed, fragrant, pink, white or red, five-petalled flowers have made it a beloved and enduring flower of the cottage garden. It grows as a low, tufted, mat-forming, evergreen perennial herb, reaching up to forty centimetres or so, with the low, tufted, many-branched stems bearing the fine, narrow, pointed, grey-green leaves and, through the late spring and the summer, the upright stems of the one to several fringed, fragrant, pink, white or red, five-petalled flowers, followed by the small, dry, many-seeded capsules. It is a species of the flowering plant in the carnation family, and it is native to the dry, sunny places of the central Europe, while it is grown as a treasured garden flower, and it is known as the garden pink.

In the carnation family it is the fragrant, fringed flower of the old cottage gardens, a plant that has kept its place by the doorsteps of Europe for centuries.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The garden pink has a long record in the flower-breeding papers of Europe, where the fringed, fragrant flowers have been crossed and selected for centuries, and the breeders keep coming back to the species for the scent and the clear colours. The fragrance chemists have studied the clove-like scent of the petals, and the botanists have mapped its place in the carnation family and the dry grassland of the central Europe. It is a flower that has served the gardens of the world and the science of the breeders alike, and the growers of the cottage-garden flowers keep it in the front rank.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the cottage garden, the garden pink is the fragrant tuft of the sunny border. Its fringed, five-petalled flowers feed the bees and the butterflies, and the low, evergreen mats fill the rock garden, the border and the gap between the stones with colour and scent. The clove-like fragrance and the long flowering make it one of the most loved flowers of the garden, and it grows well in the gritty, well-drained, sunny ground. Fringed, fragrant and long-flowering.

These are fine, easy seeds — sow them thinly onto the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining soil and barely cover them, keep the pots in a bright, airy spot and water them gently, and they’ll be up before long.