Phlox paniculata Stars and Stripes

Phlox paniculata Stars and Stripes is a variety with wavy pink flowers striped with silver. This tall Phlox paniculata offers a long and fragrant flowering period, with raspberry pink corollas marked with wide silver stripes and a crimson red centre. They are gathered in large panicles that diffuse a delicious scent evoking vanilla and nutmeg. It is also a vigorous perennial plant, with dark green foliage that is resistant to diseases. Accommodating, it can be grown in any moist soil, in the sun. Phlox provides ideal flowers in romantic flower beds, colourful mixed borders, and bouquets for the house.

Phlox paniculata Stars and Stripes belongs to the family of Polémoniaceae. It is a variety that has Phlox paniculata as its ancestor, a robust perennial native to the fertile and fresh prairies of the eastern United States. This Stars and Stripes variety is a perennial plant with a woody stump that reaches 80 cm (32in) in height and 40 cm (16in) in width at maturity. Its vegetation emerges from the ground in spring and dries up in autumn. The stiff and brittle stems are covered with alternate, simple, dark green, ovate, and lanceolate leaves. Flowering begins in early July, at the height of summer, and continues until September, as long as faded inflorescences are removed. The small flowers, 3 to 4 cm (1 to 2in) in diameter, have a tubular corolla which is a raspberry pink colour, with highly marked silver stripes. They are grouped at the end of the stems in dense and round panicles, pleasantly scented, whose weight bends the stems. The flowering is melliferous and nectariferous.

Phlox paniculata is a perennial plant accustomed to ornamental gardens.  Its simplicity and legendary generosity are almost unmatched in perennial flower beds, to the point that one sometimes wonders what was planted in flower gardens before their discovery. They go well with pink or white flowers such as Monardes 'Mohawk' or Marguerites 'Wirral Supreme'.  Phlox paniculata Stars and Stripes can be paired with bush roses, to create a harmony of colour. Add lavender blue asters or sages to lighten the composition. Phlox paniculata Stars and Stripes is a top-quality perennial to brighten up flower beds and create bouquets at home.