Catalog Description
Heady fragrance and delightful color combine to make this a cottage garden favorite. Huge blossoms are double and delicately colored in pale apple-blossom-pink. Fragrance demands they be used for cutting or planted close to outdoor living spaces. Big bushy plants make fine landscape specimens and fillers for borders. Well-drained soil. Full sun. Rapid growing to 2½ feet tall and up to 3 feet wide. Division. |
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Average Landscape Size
Fast grower to 2
½
to 3 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Huge, double pink blooms are displayed on the bold, erect stems of this clumping perennial. Excellent background plant for spring bulbs, or use in perennial or shrub borders. Choice cut flowers. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a neat appearance, remove old foliage before new leaves emerge. Divide clumps every 2 to 3 years in early spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Fast Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Clumping |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 8 (10 to 20 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 4 (-30 to -20 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Large, double, ruffled inner petals
| Flower Color |
| Pink |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Mid to late spring. |
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Propagation
| Best time to Prune |
| No Value |
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Attributes
Border Plant
Clump Forming
Cottage Garden Plant
Extremely Hardy
Flowers for Cutting
Fragrant
Fruit-Bearing
Showy Flowers
Spring Flowering |
Foliage
Mid-green leaves, divided
| Foliage Shape | Oblong |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | No Value |
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