Fruit Punch Black Cherry Frost Pinks

Dianthus 'Black Cherry Frost'

Proven Winners
Fruit Punch Series

$22.00

Awesome flowers are velvety red with fine, serrated, near white edges, above mounds of silvery blue foliage; great for flower arrangements; deadhead to re-bloom; pair up with summer blooming perennials and annuals to time a continued display

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Fruit Punch Black Cherry Frost Pinks is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

Ornamental Qualities

Fruit Punch Black Cherry Frost Pinks has masses of beautiful fragrant red frilly flowers with creamy white edges at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall | which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive narrow leaves remain grayish green in color with hints of silvery blue throughout the year.

Planting and Growing

Fruit Punch Black Cherry Frost Pinks will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 8 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 10"Hx12"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are red with strong fragrance

Flowers from early summer to early fall

Attracts bees; butterflies

Zone 3b

Likes average to moist soil