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Dig up the plant and split it into smaller chunks before replanting. You can increase your stock of phlox plants is by dividing them in early spring. This will delay flowering by about a month.Ĭut your plant down to ground level in autumn or winter, once the foliage has died back.

Cut on the diagonal, just above a leaf joint. Cut some or all of the stems back by half in late May, around the traditional time of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. If you want to stagger flowering or delay flowering, you can try the ‘Chelsea Chop’ on your plants. Plants rarely need staking, but you may need to do this on a windy site. If you’re gardening on poor soil, feed every spring with fertiliser.ĭeadheading immediately after flowering might result in more phlox flowers produced from side shoots in autumn. Signs that your phlox needs dividing are fewer flowers and a sparse centre. To keep your plant growing well and to prevent it from becoming congested, divide it every three or four years, in early spring. Phlox gradually form large clumps in the garden.

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How to grow phlox – doing the Chelsea Chop in late May

Alpine phlox need plenty of sun and well drained soil. They need little care, although deadheading promptly may result in more phlox flowers later in the season, and dividing every few years will keep the plant healthy and flowering well. They are sensitive to drought, so them keep well watered in hot, dry weather. Most border phlox do well in a sunny spot in moist, well drained soil. Annual phlox, such as Phlox drummondii, are ideal as bedding plants or for growing in containers and are often grown from seed. Varieties that hail from woodland habitats, sometimes called ‘woodland phlox’, such as Phlox divaricata, need partial shade and hummus-rich soil. They make excellent ground cover and are often grown in a rockery.

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They thrive in full sun and well-drained soil. Most border phlox grow best in full sun, but as they are native to woodland edges they will also do well in partial shade.Ĭultivars of creeping phlox or alpine phlox, such as Phlox subulata, are low growing and flower in early summer.

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