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Dianthus 'First Love'

Common name(s): Dianthus

Family name: Caryophyllaceae

Common family name: Pink Family

USDA hardiness zone(s): 3B

Perennation: perennial

Light level: sun, partial sun, partial shade

Flower color: white, red

Plant height: 1 foot 3 inches - 1 foot 8 inches

Plant spread: 1 foot 3 inches

Deciduous: evergreen

Growth form: clump-forming

Leaf color: green

Range: Cultivated

Habit: herbaceous

Special characteristics:

This clump-forming hybrid garden pink is noted for the changing colors of its flowers. Its flowers emerge white, change to pink and finally mature to a lavender-rose as they mature, with all colors typically appearing at the same time on a clump. Forms a foliage mound of silvery blue-green leaves rising 15"-18" tall and spreading to 20" wide. Foliage is evergreen, providing some winter interest to the garden. Masses of heavily fringed, very fragrant, single flowers (to 1.5" diameter) cover the foliage mound in spring. With deadheading and/or shearing of spent blooms, 'First Love' may bloom continuously from spring to frost. In warm winter climates (USDA Zones 8-9), this cultivar may bloom year-round. Pinks are so named because their fringed petals typically look like they were cut with pinking shears.

To 10,000 feet.

Zones 3B - 9