Mountain Pinks and Blooming Natives
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Comments (3)I thought it looked like a pink version of a Fire Pink, or some other dianthus. Here is a link that might be useful: pictures of Fire Pink...See MoreNATIVE tall pink phlox???
Comments (6)I find this phlox in undeveloped areas on native plant rescues. It is much meeker looking than the pictures, the leaves are skinny and the blooms smaller. I'm sure these guys use the best picture they have. According to Newcomb's, cultivated phlox paniculata has escaped cultivated in New England. However, I do believe phlox paniculata is native to the US originally. Here is a link that might be useful: USDA site...See MorePink & White flowering native trees
Comments (14)Mexican buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa) is another pink flowering native that should also begin blooming in the area about now. Or possibly peach volunteers from squirrel distributed pits? Peaches are currently blooming variations of white or pink in north Texas....See MoreLooking for Pink Pagoda Mountain Ash
Comments (37)Garden centers here have sold all kinds of plants I never see anywhere from my car, on foot or in local collections. And nothing gets on the general market in a big way that isn't picked up by at least one wholesale company, bulked up sufficiently and sent to numbers of garden centers and other retailers. Plus even among those that are given this level of prevalence at least for a few years only a percentage become standard items, that are seen repeatedly for long periods of time. For one thing a plant has to appeal to popular taste, and stay in favor in order to remain on the everyday market. If it doesn't sell well, and quickly, it soon gets dropped by walk-in retailers. For instance when I worked as a buyer for a garden center I ordered the Coral Fire mountain ash from Monrovia. It stiffed, because just about everybody that came in looking for mountain ash wanted instead the same orange-berried Sorbus aucuparia (a weed in my region) that they were seeing around already. The plants we had were even in fruit, yet, nope it had to the familiar orange one. With the result that the actually much more special Coral Fire ended up being discounted, and certainly was not going to be replaced - once it was finally gotten rid of. Even retailers selling mail order or on the web, seeming to be oriented more to plant nuts still need the stuff to sell in a timely manner. Otherwise it (sometimes) gets given away, more often marked down or (probably most often) thrown out. It is one of the few Sorbus that does well in the humid summers of Southeastern Pennsylvania. says to me a built-in resistance to Sorbus is likely to be present in the regional market - both among producers and consumers - which could have prevented the Longwood introduction from becoming a lasting commercial success there. In other words I don't think apparent or perceived scarcity as a product automatically demonstrates lack of garden suitability....See Moreroselee z8b S.W. Texas
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