Phlox Hitsujiyama Park Bashny.Net

In the middle of may appear white, pink, lilac and reddish-purple clumps. Its name the plant owes small (length 1 to 2 cm) leaves subulate form. Plant height 15 — 17 cm Forms dense evergreen mats.


Lying stems with very short internodes completely covered with closely setting small, narrow, sharp and rigid leaves up to 2 cm in length. Stems ending peduncles, bearing one or two flowers each. Flowers with a diameter of about 25 mm, pink, white, purple, lilac color of different tone, collected at 5-7 in small inflorescences, sometimes solitary. Corolla with the extended, notched at the edges of the petals.


Blooms from mid-may to the end of the first decade of June, the second and less abundant in August — September. Styloid Phlox is good because from early spring until frost their derninki remain emerald green even under the snow keeping their greens. And during flowering, in late may-early June, carpets of Phlox subulate completely covered with flowers of various colors (white, blue, pink, red, bright eyes, strokes, or without them). Although the flowers of creeping Phlox are small (diameter less than 2 cm), their blooms so abundantly that under a solid cover colors absolutely can not see green and it lasts about a month.


Here's how whole fields in bloom Phlox subulate Japanese Hitsujiyama Park. Very nice carpets of Phlox, blooming at the same time with Sakura. In Japan, the styloid Phlox bloom in April - may.

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