Paint The Town Magenta Pinks
Dianthus 'Paint The Town Magenta'
Proven Winners
Paint The Town Series
$24.00
Vibrant magenta pink flowers above mounds of glaucous blue foliage; great for flower arrangements; deadhead to rebloom; pair up with summer blooming perennials and annuals to time a continued flower 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
Paint The Town Magenta 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
Paint The Town Magenta Pinks is smothered in stunning fragrant hot pink frilly flowers at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive narrow leaves remain powder blue in color with hints of grayish green throughout the year.
Planting and Growing
Paint The Town Magenta Pinks will grow to be only 6 inches tall at maturity extending to 8 inches tall with the flowers | 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 6"(8"withtheflowers)Hx14"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are hot pink with strong fragrance
Flowers from early summer to early fall
Attracts bees; butterflies
Zone 4a
Likes average to moist soil