EverBloom Watermelon Ice Pinks

Dianthus 'Watermelon Ice'

Garden Choice
EverBloom Series

$25.00

Stunning, massed reddish-pink flowers with white tips, rise above compact mounds of fine foliage on strong stems; great for flower arrangements; very floriferous with a tidy, uniform habit; deadhead to promote re-blooming; excellent in containers

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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

EverBloom Watermelon Ice 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

EverBloom Watermelon Ice Pinks is blanketed in stunning fragrant red frilly flowers with pink overtones and white tips at the ends of the stems from mid spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain grayish green in color with hints of silvery blue throughout the year.

Planting and Growing

EverBloom Watermelon Ice Pinks will grow to be only 6 inches tall at maturity extending to 8 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 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 6"(8"withtheflowers)Hx24"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are red with strong fragrance

Flowers from mid spring to mid fall

Attracts bees; butterflies

Zone 3b

Likes average to moist soil