Fruit Punch Sweetie Pie Pinks
Dianthus 'Sweetie Pie'
Proven Winners
Fruit Punch Series
$22.00
Attractive, semi-double, true pink flowers with darker pink eyes, above mounds of silvery blue-green foliage; great for flower arrangements; deadhead to re-bloom; pair up with summer blooming perennials and annuals to time a continued display
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 Sweetie Pie 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 Sweetie Pie Pinks has masses of beautiful fragrant pink frilly flowers with rose eyes and a crimson ring 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 bluish-green in color with hints of silver throughout the year.
Planting and Growing
Fruit Punch Sweetie Pie Pinks will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 14 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 12 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"Hx14"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are pink with strong fragrance
Flowers from early summer to early fall
Attracts bees; butterflies
Zone 4a
Likes average to moist soil