Phlox subulata 'Snow Queen' - CREEPING PHLOX 'SNOW QUEEN' (miniature form)
Small and delicate cultivar with tiny white flowers. Forms only a small mat - it's suitable for rock gardens, containers, troughs, crevice gardens or small flower beds.
Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)
Size : 1-2” tall x 8" wide mat
USDA zones : 3 to 9
Culture : full sun, half shade, dappled sun, organic, gravelly, rocky, sandy soils, poor and shallow soils, xeriscape. Adaptable plant, but drainage is essential!
Moisture Needs : dry, medium-dry, soil has to be drained
Origin : garden origin. The species of Phlox subulata is native wildflower to states from Michigan, Ontario and New York south to Tennessee and mainly in the Appalachians to North Carolina. Often found on dry, rocky or sandy places, open woodland areas, limestone barrens and slopes. See the BONAP distribution map.
Deer/rabbit resistant : yes / yes
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
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Plant combinations : For the edges, along patios and paths, rock gardens, trough gardens, crevice gardens, slopes, in combination with rocks. Best combined with smaller perennials – Anemone (Pasque Flowers), Antennaria, Campanula rotundifolia, Coreopsis, Cunila origanoides, Dalea, short Gaillardia, smaller cultivars of Heuchera, shorter Penstemons, shorter cultivars of Stokesia, native grasses like Koeleria cristata, Sporobolus heterolepis 'Tara' (or non-native Sesleria).
And non-native perennials like Achillea ', summer blooming Allium, shorter/dwarf Aquilegia, Armeria, Calamintha grandiflora, rock-garden Campanula, Delosperma, Dianthus, Geranium cnereum, G. dalmaticum, Gypsohila repens, Iris (dwarf and miniature bearded Iris), dwarf Platycodon, Satureja, Sedum, Sempervivum, Scabiosa columbaria, Thymus, lower Veronica and many spring bulbs.
Phlox subulata 'Snow Queen' - CREEPING PHLOX 'SNOW QUEEN' (miniature form)
Small and delicate cultivar with tiny white flowers. Forms only a small mat - it's suitable for rock gardens, containers, troughs, crevice gardens or small flower beds.
Blooming time : usually for a couple weeks in April/May (in cooler region or in cool spring longer)
Size : 1-2” tall x 8" wide mat
USDA zones : 3 to 9
Culture : full sun, half shade, dappled sun, organic, gravelly, rocky, sandy soils, poor and shallow soils, xeriscape. Adaptable plant, but drainage is essential!
Moisture Needs : dry, medium-dry, soil has to be drained
Origin : garden origin. The species of Phlox subulata is native wildflower to states from Michigan, Ontario and New York south to Tennessee and mainly in the Appalachians to North Carolina. Often found on dry, rocky or sandy places, open woodland areas, limestone barrens and slopes. See the BONAP distribution map.
Deer/rabbit resistant : yes / yes
Pot size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Picture copyright : US Perennials
Plant combinations : For the edges, along patios and paths, rock gardens, trough gardens, crevice gardens, slopes, in combination with rocks. Best combined with smaller perennials – Anemone (Pasque Flowers), Antennaria, Campanula rotundifolia, Coreopsis, Cunila origanoides, Dalea, short Gaillardia, smaller cultivars of Heuchera, shorter Penstemons, shorter cultivars of Stokesia, native grasses like Koeleria cristata, Sporobolus heterolepis 'Tara' (or non-native Sesleria).
And non-native perennials like Achillea ', summer blooming Allium, shorter/dwarf Aquilegia, Armeria, Calamintha grandiflora, rock-garden Campanula, Delosperma, Dianthus, Geranium cnereum, G. dalmaticum, Gypsohila repens, Iris (dwarf and miniature bearded Iris), dwarf Platycodon, Satureja, Sedum, Sempervivum, Scabiosa columbaria, Thymus, lower Veronica and many spring bulbs.