Dianthus Nova Clove Pink Firewitch and Tiny Rubies

	Heavenly scented and charmingly petit, these Clove Pinks add old world charm to gardens and containers. Our three varieties offer a nice selection of color and heights. Dianthus Nova (pictured top right and below) is our largest dianthus sprawling its silvery gray stems and deep dark pink flowers to about a foot. Plant it at the edge of a hanging basket and it will flow over the edge providing color and spicy scent. Dianthus Firewitch (pictured top left) was the 2006 perennial of the year. More compact, but still fragrant, than Nova it reaches only about 6 inches and has incredible pink flowers that go well with blues. Indeed the foliage is a bluish-silver which is very eye-catching in the garden. As the bouquet below shows, there is quite a difference in the size and color of these two fragrant dianthus.

	Dianthus Tiny Rubies (not pictured) is so small Barbie would be right at home with it in her garden. It also makes a nice groundcover for us giants. The teeny pink flowers cover the light green tufts which spread to about eight inches or more as time goes by. It is only about two or three inches tall, depending on how much sun it gets. The more sun the shorter it stays.

Dianthus nova hanging out of its oval planter!

All of our clove scented Dianthus varities would make a great addition to our Zone 5 Fragrant Herb Garden.

Cultural Information

Height: Nova-1 Foot,
Firewitch 6 inches,
Tiny Rubies 2 inches

Hardiness: Perennial
in Zones 3-11

Flower Color: Shades of pink

Characteristics: Sun/
Partial Sun

Uses: Fragrant Ornamental,
Edible Flower

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